Month names collection / metastudy

[Koen G]

Ahh yes, I love the classic "the day of St Someone, in this current century and this year"  :)

It's quite interesting how this changed. It's a bit like today, if you'd say "the treaty was signed on Christmas Day of 1996". In a narrative of the events, nobody would find that choice of words unusual. In fact, at least in Western culture, it would be weird if you just say that an event took place on the 25th of December without mentioning Christmas. 

So in the same way we have Christmas as a point of reference in the year, they had a lot more of "named" days that people were apparently supposed to know. It must have been more meaningful for them to refer to the Saint's name than just the month and the number. But we'd have a lot more data if they didn't :)