when is st swithins 2007?

Answer 1

I agree with Raymo, the first response was deplorable, Also the fact that it is a fixed feast day, July 15.

Oddly enough, I have always been fond of that day, perhaps because it is the half way mark to Christmas!!

--That Cheeky Lad

Answer 2

July 15

Answer 3

Events such as St Swithin's day, of July 15th, with its accompanying feast in the Christian calendar, offer glimpses of an older way of life, through a ‘threadbare cloak’ of Christianising adaptation. 'Thrice St Swithin crossed the fold, he passed the night mare and her nine-fold,' - perhaps replacing Odin: 'the leader of the wild hunt' in many parts of Northern Europe.
Odin, in Norse mythology, is 'the hanged one'; who hung for nine days and nine nights on the 'world tree' Yggdrasill - a sacrifice of himself to himself, to obtain knowledge and power. To judge from early Scandinavian literature, kings and leaders went through a symbolic version of this sacrifice in order to increase their power, as in the story of King Vikar. But when Vikar went through the ritual death, the calf's guts round his neck failed to break as intended, and the reed with which he was touched was transformed into a spear - so that the sacrifice became real indeed.
Similarly: the cult of the ‘eternal flame’, In Irish monasteries, tended by Vestal Virgins, etc., is probably transposed from older times, when the kindling of fire was no easy operation - and so it would be carefully preserved. The 'virgin' fire: struck by lightning, would be regarded with especial reverence, most likely with particular regard to the oak.
Religions commonly borrow from each other: witness Frazer's 'Jesus as King of the Saturnalia' etc. JGF kept his comfortable rooms at university, by sailing around his subject without actually declaring its existence.

Answer 4

I think Pagreen's reply was one of the rudest, most ignorant replies I have seen for a while. Pity the person!
A civil answer to a civil question is that this is a fixed feast and always falls on 15 July.

Answer 5

This year it falls on a Sunday - 15th July. If it rains then, it is supposed to rain for 40 days!

Answer 6

July the 15 and that's me wedding aneversy that's how i don't forget it and no it did not rain that day yo dont mind the first yodle with that rude first ans he is a silly sod

Answer 7

July 15th

Answer 8

Oh go away you religious freak.

This site is for educated people only!

Its not for deluded individuals who believe in primitive, superstitious garbage.

Anyway, why aren't you in church?