SAINTS' DAYS AND OTHER FESTIVALS MENTIONED IN THE FOREGOING DOCUMENTS All Saints: 1 November All Souls: 2 November Annunciation of the Virgin, The: 25 March Ascension of the Lord, The: the fortieth day after Easter Ash Wednesday: the first day of Lent Assumption of the Virgin, The: 15 August Bartholomew, St.: 24 August Candlemas: 2 February Chair of St. Peter, The: 18 January Close of Easter, The: the Sunday after Easter Conception of the Virgin, The: 8 December Corpus Christi: the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday Cuthbert, St.: 20 March Dunstan, St.: 19 May Easter: the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox (21 March) Edmund the King, St.: 20 November Edward the Confessor, St.: 13 October Epiphany: 6 January Exaltation of the Holy Cross, The: 14 September Faith, St.: 1 August Giles, St.: 1 September Gregory the Great, St.: 3 November Helen, St.: 18 August Hilary, St.: 13 January Hokeday: the second Tuesday after Easter James the Apostle, St.: 25 July John, St.: 27 December John the Baptist, St.: 24 June Lent: the forty week-days preceding Easter Martin, St.: 12 November Matthew, St.: 21 September Michael, St. (Michaelmas): 29 September Mid-Lent: the fourth Sunday in Lent Nativity of the Lord, The (Christmas): 25 December Nativity of the Virgin, The: 8 September Pentecost: the seventh Sunday after Easter Peter and Paul, Sts.: 29 June Purification of the Virgin, The: 2 February Rogation Days: the three days before the feast of the Ascension Simon and Jude, Sts.: 28 October Stephen, St.: 26 December Thomas the Martyr, St.: 6 September Trinity, The Holy: the eighth Sunday after Easter Vincent, the Martyr, St.: 22 January Whitsuntide (Whit Sunday): the seventh Sunday after Easter