Feast of the Circumcision of Christ Reformation. It remains on most Lutheran liturgical calendars to this day, although there has been a general move to call it "The Name of Jesus." Martin Luther preached at least one notable sermon on this feast day which is still available in his Church Postils, and up until the late 1970s, Lutheran hymnbooks would contain several hymns relating to this subject. Feast of the Circumcision of Christ The Feast of the Circumcision of Christ is a Christian celebration of the circumcision of Jesus in accordance with Jewish tradition, eight days (according to the Semitic and southern European calculation of intervals
Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ Invention of the Cross, and was approved in 1506 by Pope Julius II; it was kept in Savoy, Piedmont, and Sardinia as the patronal feast of the royal House of Savoy (4 May, double of the first class, with octave). In 1206 another one of the supposed Winding Sheets used at the burial of Christ was brought to Besançon by Otto de la Roche, and the feast of its arrival ("Susceptio") was ordered to be kept on 11 July. It became a double of the first class in the cathedral, and of the second class in the diocese. A third