The Transfiguration Of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Feast Day 6 August.

Text and Illustrations (unless otherwise stated) are taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
which is available from ST. BONAVENTURE PRESS

Double of the Second-Class.

White Vestments.

This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased: Hear ye Him.

The Feast of The Transfiguration of Jesus had long been Solemnised on 6 August, in different Churches of the East and the West. To commemorate the victory which arrested, near Belgrade, in 1456, the invading tide of Islam, and which was announced at Rome on 6 August, Pope Callistus III extended the Feast to the whole Church.

It is the Feast of many Churches under the Title of Saint Saviour. This is why Pope Saint Pius X raised it to the Rank of Double of the Second-Class, for it is the old Title of the Cathedral of Rome, Saint John Lateran, formerly called the Basilica of Saint Saviour (Feast Day 9 November).

In Low Masses: Commemoration of The Holy Martyrs, Pope Saint Sixtus II, Felicissimus

                             and Agapitus.