Coronation of the British monarch on Christmas Day, possibly in imitation of the Byzantine emperors, and John's was on Ascension Day. Elizabeth I consulted her astrologer, John Dee, before deciding on an auspicious date. The coronations of Charles II in 1661 and Anne in 1702 were on St George's Day, the feast of the patron saint of England. Under the Hanoverian monarchs in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was deemed appropriate to extend the waiting period to several months, following a period of mourning for the previous monarch and to allow time for preparation of the ceremony. In the case of every monarch
Judgement Day (short story) Judgement Day (short story) "Judgement Day" is a short story by Flannery O'Connor. It was published in 1965 in her short story collection "Everything That Rises Must Converge". O'Connor finished the collection during her final battle with lupus. She died in 1964, just before her final book was published. A devout Roman Catholic, O'Connor often used religious themes in her work. Judgement day contains many similarities to one of O'Connor's earliest short stories, "The Geranium." "All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of