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" ... days are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost, after the 14th September, and after the 13th December. The term 'embering... "
Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People - Page 29
by Ephraim Chambers - 1870
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XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas: Biography, History, Art, Science ..., Volume 3

1901 - 532 pages
...Churches, fast-days occurring at the times in the year appointed for ordinations. As now observed they are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the...first Sunday in Lent, ' after the feast of Pentecost or Whitsunday, after the festival of the Holy Cross (14th Sept.), and after the festival of St. Lucia...
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The New International Encyclopaedia, Volume 7

Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 892 pages
...by Saint Augustine, and into Germany by Saint Boniface. Their exact date has varied ; they are now the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after September 14th, the Exaltation of the Cross, and after December 13th, Saint Lucy's...
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Apt and Meet: Counsels to Candidates for Holy Orders at the Church Divinity ...

William Ford Nichols - 1909 - 184 pages
...commending. They roughly correspond with the four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. The especial days are the "Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after the 14th of September and after the 13th of December. "When in the last revision...
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The New International Encyclopæeia, Volume 7

Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 886 pages
...England by Saint Augustine, and into Germany by Saint Boniface. Their exact date has varied; they are now the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after September 14th, the Exaltation of the Cross, and after December 13th, Saint Lucy's...
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The Book of Common Prayer

Samuel Hart - 1910 - 300 pages
...Holy Orders; and about the year noo they were settled according to the rule which still holds. They are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the First Sunday in Lent and after Whitsunday (here alone in the Prayer Book called Pentecost), and (to put the statement precisely)...
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Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive ..., Volume 4

Charles Morris - 1921 - 658 pages
...churches, fast days occurring at the times in the year appointed for ordinations. As now observed, they are the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost or Whitsunday, after the festival of the Holy Cross (September 14), and after the festival of St. Lucia...
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What a Churchman Ought to Know

Frank Elmer Wilson - 1921 - 76 pages
...four times a year, when special prayers are offered for those being ordained to the ministry. They are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the First Sunday in Lent, after Whitsunday, after September 14th, and after December 13th. Rogation Days (the Monday, Tuesday, and...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 4

David Patrick, William Geddie - 1924 - 888 pages
...three days appointed four times in the year to be observed as days of fasting and abstinence ; being the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first...the 14th September, and after the 13th December. The name is probably derived from the Saxon ymb, ' about,' and ryne, a 'course' or 'running,' and applied...
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Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive ..., Volume 4

Charles Morris - 1923 - 514 pages
...churches, fast days occurring at the times in the year appointed for ordinations. As now observed, they are the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, after the feast of Pentecost or Whitsunday, after the festival of the Holy Cross (September 14), and after the festival of St. Lucia...
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Origins and Meaning of Popular Phrases & Names: Including Those which Came ...

Basil Hargrave - 1925 - 392 pages
...and prayer for those about to be admitted into Holy Orders. They occur four times in the year — on the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday after the First Sunday in Lent, after WhitSunday, after I4th September, and after 13th December. There is, however, another suggestion for...
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