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Saints days and feasts
Whilst in the chronicles of the day and indeed in every day life, 14th century man used a calendar similar to that we would recognise today (the church on the other hand used the old Roman Calendar that was quite different) he tended to navigate not from the 12th to the 13th of the month; but rather from the feast of St "X" to the feast of St "Y". The traditional feast days that would be familiar in the 14th century, many have fallen out of favour and not a few have moved. The calendar below gives some examples of the saints days as they appeared in 14th century chronicles. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list!
Feast and saints days as known by 14th Century man Note that all the feast days below appear in chronicles of events of the 14th century. January 1st Feast of the Circumcision 6th Feast of Epiphany 20th January Feast of St Sebastian 28th January Feast day of St Thomas Aquinas February 2nd February Purification of the Virgin 10th February St Scholastica March 14th March Feast of St Matilda 25th March Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary April 23rd April St George, martyr 25th April Feast of St Mark May 1st May Feast of St Philip the Apostle and St James the Apostle 3rd May Feast of the Invention (the finding) of the Holy Cross 16th May Nativity of St John the Baptist June 19th June St Peter’s day 24th June Feast of the nativity of July 22nd St Mary Magdelene August 1st August Feast of St Peter Ad Vincula (St Peter’s chains) also known as "Gulam Augusti"* 1st August Lammastide 6th August Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ 15th August Feast of the Assumption 20th August Feast of St Oswin (or Oswyn) 24th August St Bartholomew the Apostle 29th August Decollation (beheading) of St John the Baptist September 8th September Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 29th September St Michael (the archangel) day October 8th October St Brigit (as instituted by Boniface IX at the behest of Adam Easton) 13th October Saint Edward the Confessor 18th October Feast of St Luke November 1st November All Saints day 11th November St Martin of 13th November Feast of St Brice 30th November Feast of St Andrew December 21st December St Thomas the Apostle 26th December St Stephen Protomartyr 29th December The Feast of St Thomas (a Becket) the martyr 31st December St Silvester’s day * St Peter ad Vincula is also known as Gulam Augusti due to a strange legend that the daughter of tribune Quirinus was said to have been cured of a disease of the throat (Latin:gula) by kissing St Peter’s chains on the 1st August.