| 词条 | Oxfordshire Day |
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|holiday_name = Oxfordshire Day |type = County day |longtype = |image = Cathedral, Christ Church, Oxford, from the cloisters. - geograph.org.uk - 187944.jpg |caption = Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford |official_name = |nickname = St Frideswide's Day |observedby = The Oxfordshire Association, Diocese of Oxford |begins = |ends = |date = 19 October |duration = 1 day |frequency = annual |scheduling = same day each year |celebrations = |observances = |relatedto = St Frideswide }}Oxfordshire Day is celebrated on 19 October to promote the historic English county of Oxfordshire.[1] It is also the principal feast day of the patron saint of the city and university of Oxford, St Frideswide.[2] The commemoration of St Fridewide's Day was encouraged in the nineteenth century by Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church.[3] The feast day now appears in the calendars of the Diocese of Oxford[4] and the Roman Catholic Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.[5] Each year there is a civic service to celebrate St Frideswide's Day in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, which houses her shrine.[6] See also
References1. ^The Oxfordshire Association County Day Celebrations {{Oxfordshire}}2. ^ John Blair, St Frideswide, Patron of Oxford: Oxford, Perpetua Press, 1988. See also The feast of St Frideswide 3. ^A Commemoration Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford on the Sunday after St Frideswide's Day, 1880, Being the Seven Hundredth Year after the Opening of the Present Church (1880, unpublished but catalogued in the Bodleian Library, Oxford) 4. ^Oxford Diocesan Calendar 5. ^Calendar of the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham 6. ^ St Frideswide: Oxford's patron saint 3 : October observances|Events in Oxfordshire|Annual events in England |
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