Keberoxu: "The holy church celebrates the birth-tide of three people: of the Saviour, who is God and man, and of John his herald, and of the blessed Mary his mother." HERE. So it only goes to reason with the reduction of the Mother of the Saviour to a voiceless prop of Protestant Christmas plays & pageants Saint John the Baptist his herald would be eliminated altogether. No Popery allowed and certainly no bonfires - a honor reserved for Guy