Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)
lesser festival type observance anglican communion including church england considered less significant principal feast principal holy day festival significant commemoration whereas principal feast must celebrated obligatory observe lesser festival always attached calendar date observed fall sunday holy week easter week common worship lesser festival provided collect indication liturgical colour source c e website january basil great gregory nazianzus bishop teacher faith january aelred hexham abbot rievaulx january hilary bishop poitier teacher faith january antony egypt hermit abbot january wulfstan bishop worcester january agnes child martyr rome january francis de sale bishop geneva teacher faith january timothy titus companion paul january thomas aquinas priest philosopher teacher faith january charles king martyr february anskar archbishop hamburg missionary denmark sweden february cyril methodius missionary slav february janani luwum archbishop uganda martyr february polycarp bishop smyrna martyr c february george herbert priest poet march patrick bishop missionary patron ireland c april william law priest spiritual writer may alcuin york deacon abbot tour may josephine butler social reformer june richard bishop chichester july benedict nursia abbot monte cassino father western monasticism c july john keble leader oxford movement august bernard abbot clairvaux teacher faith september john chrysostom bishop constantinople teacher faith september lancelot andrewes overseer king james version bible october francis assisi friar deacon founder friar minor october alfred great king west saxon scholar november edmund king east angle martyr december lucy martyr syracuse list anglican church calendar principal feast principal holy day festival anglicanism commemoration anglicanism