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Thread #94349 Message #1825782
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
03-Sep-06 - 04:29 AM
Thread Name: Hymn-tune popularity contest
Subject: RE: Hymn-tune popularity contest
"those few Saints' days that have music" ???
From what I remember, the majority of saints days that are observed are reasons for feast days (it's a holyday after all, and what do you do on holiday?) and have the most marvellous music. Look in any haigiography or here, and you'll find literally hundreds of saints to be celebrated, one for each day of the year (today, Sept 3rd is Gregory the Great, C540-604, elected pope in 590 and sent Augustine to England, thus kick-starting the conversion of Britain)... if he doesn't deserve music then who does?!