Oxfordshire Day is celebrated on 19 October to promote the historic English county of Oxfordshire.The Oxfordshire Association County Day Celebrations It is also the principal feast day of the patron saint of the city and university of Oxford, St Frideswide. John Blair, St Frideswide, Patron of Oxford: Oxford, Perpetua Press, 1988. See also The feast of St Frideswide
The commemoration of St Frideswide's Day was encouraged in the nineteenth century by Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church.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Sunday after St Frideswide's Day, 1880, Being the Seven Hundredth Year after the Opening of the Present Church (1880, unpublished but catalogued in the Bodleian Library, Oxford) The feast day now appears in the calendars of the Diocese of OxfordOxford Diocesan Calendar and the Roman Catholic Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.Calendar of the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham Each year there is a civic service to celebrate St Frideswide's Day in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, which houses her shrine. St Frideswide: Oxford's patron saint
See also
Flag of Oxfordshire List of county days in the United Kingdom St Piran's Day Yorkshire Day Sussex Day
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