Oxfordshire Day
| Oxfordshire Day | |
|---|---|
 Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford | |
| Also called | St Frideswide's Day |
| Observed by | The Oxfordshire Association, Diocese of Oxford |
| Date | 19 October |
| Next time | 19 October 2025 |
| Frequency | annual |
| Related to | St Frideswide |
Oxfordshire Day is celebrated on 19 October to promote the historic English county of Oxfordshire.[1] It is also the principal feast day of the patron saint of the city and university of Oxford, St Frideswide.[2]
The commemoration of St Frideswide's Day was encouraged in the nineteenth century by Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church.[3] The feast day now appears in the calendars of the Diocese of Oxford[4] and the Roman Catholic Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.[5] Each year there is a civic service to celebrate St Frideswide's Day in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, which houses her shrine.[6]
See also
[edit]- Flag of Oxfordshire
- List of county days in the United Kingdom
- St Piran's Day
- Yorkshire Day
- Sussex Day
References
[edit]- ^ The Oxfordshire Association County Day Celebrations
- ^ John Blair, St Frideswide, Patron of Oxford: Oxford, Perpetua Press, 1988. See also The feast of St Frideswide
- ^ A Commemoration Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford on the Sunday after St Frideswide's Day, 1880, Being the Seven Hundredth Year after the Opening of the Present Church (1880, unpublished but catalogued in the Bodleian Library, Oxford)
- ^ Oxford Diocesan Calendar
- ^ Calendar of the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham
- ^ St Frideswide: Oxford's patron saint