ABSTRACT
Following the Anglican Reformation, the distinction would be reinforced descriptively in England for clergy and laymen alike by reference to Calendar Festivals as Red Letter Days and to all others as Black Letter Days. Nevertheless, despite the severe stylisation of this consistently symbolic form of re-enactment of event, recourse has unquestionably been taken to the principles underpinning the arts of drama and theatrical representation to effect it. Once established, the innovative format for liturgical celebration could easily be built upon as a precedent for use at other major Calendar Festivals such as Ascension Day, Whitsunday, Christmas or Epiphany. This was then to proceed through the streets with the Host prominently displayed for all to venerate as it passed by and so to return again to the church where the Host was to be used for a festive Massproper to this new Calendar Feast.
