Note 432 — Chapter I · THE CHURCH’S YEAR (continued 3)
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St Gregory the Great ordered that the Anglo-Saxons should keep the dedication of churches and the natalitia martyrum in the same way as they had previously observed the festivals while they were yet heathen, that is to say by erecting huts of branches and by feasting. (Epist. ii. 76, of the year 601).