On Feb 20, 2018, at 11:13 PM, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

On 20 Feb 2018 at 18:50, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:

Wasn't that long ago that every day on a church calendar showed the
name of a saint or saints. On my mother's side of the family a person
got their middle name from the patron saint of their birthday. Hence,
my mother received the name of a male saint as a middle name, which is
not that uncommon w/i the latin-language world. Lot's of men with
'Maria' as a middle name. Traditionally, in Mexico, a person
celebrated their name-saints day rather than their birthday.

Many years ago I was writing some code to do a *simplified* 
"medieval" church calendar. It was mostly for SCA use to give the old 
time flavor of dating messages and the like with 

Octvember 37th, 
The feast St Vidicon of Cathode
In the Year of Our Lord 2745

The rules for the Church calendar are *very* weird and more than a 
bit complex.

To start with every day of the year has *at least* one saint 
associated with it.

I just recently read a brief article about the official catalog of saints for the Catholic Church which was started in 1643 and not officially finished until 1940…links to the online version of the work is in the article 

ObTrav: I'm contemplating an ancient collection of bound books in the innermost sanctum Special Collections of the AAB, “The Archives of the Shugilli”….  and a shadowy patron in a dingy Startown bar offering the typical party a job: track down (quietly!) an allegedly stolen volume; allegedly in the possession of a certain avaricious crime lord…