Post by Sir C. M. Siervicül on May 16, 2007 8:53:10 GMT -6
Esteemed Squirrel King of Arms:
At your request, Columcille Pursuivant (Lord Hooligan) and I have prepared the following proposed schedule of dates for the issuance of honours lists. The revised calendar was constructed with due regard to the following considerations:
1) As you have mandated, the Sovereign's Birthday is one of the dates, and no more than one date falls in any one month.
2) The total number of dates is six, roughly evenly spaced throughout the year.
3) Each date on the calendar was selected for its significance in illuminating a unique facet of our nation.
4) In order to maintain continuity with the heraldic traditions heretofore established in our Kingdom, three of the six dates are unchanged from the previous calendar, while a fourth (Sovereign's Birthday) differs in date but retains the same significance.
Revised Talossan Calendar of Honours:
NOTES: Independence Day, Wargaming Day, and St. Aaron's Day (obviously) already have established associations with the liturgical calendar. Tafsut Imazighen (a Berber holiday, one of four currently celebrated in Algeria) falls on the feast day of Saints Marcellinus, Vincent, and Domninus, three North African priests who were sent to evangelize Gaul in the mid fourth century. Marcellinus was the first bishop of Embrun (Occitan "Ambrun") and died there (or near there, apparently while hiding in the hills avoiding Arian persecution) in 374 AD. North Africans living in Occitania in the late fourth century? These guys might have been laying the foundations of the Talossan language.
Monarchy Day falls on St. Bartholomew's Day, which is also the feast day of the martyrs of Utica (150-300 Christians thrown into a pit of quicklime in Utica, Tunisia around 260 AD). The King's Birthday falls on the feast day of Saints Felix and Cyprian and companions, martyrs. Felix and Cyprian were North African bishops who, along with nearly 5,000 other North African Christians, were driven into the desert in 484 A.D. on the orders of King Huneric of the Vandals for opposing Arianism.
We anticipate the issuance of an honours list on each and every regular date on the established calendar. Should heraldic business pile up unreasonably between regular dates, the following dates not included on the above calendar ought to be preferred for the awarding of extraordinary honours:
If this calendar meets with Your Squirrelness' approval, we request that you propose it to the King for His Majesty's consideration and formal adoption.
Humbly submitted,
Bartleby Pursuivant
Columcille Pursuivant
At your request, Columcille Pursuivant (Lord Hooligan) and I have prepared the following proposed schedule of dates for the issuance of honours lists. The revised calendar was constructed with due regard to the following considerations:
1) As you have mandated, the Sovereign's Birthday is one of the dates, and no more than one date falls in any one month.
2) The total number of dates is six, roughly evenly spaced throughout the year.
3) Each date on the calendar was selected for its significance in illuminating a unique facet of our nation.
4) In order to maintain continuity with the heraldic traditions heretofore established in our Kingdom, three of the six dates are unchanged from the previous calendar, while a fourth (Sovereign's Birthday) differs in date but retains the same significance.
Revised Talossan Calendar of Honours:
- 26 December: Independence Day. This day celebrates the freedom and very existence of our beloved nation.
- 21 February: Wargaming Day. This day celebrates the cultural pastimes that bind us as a nation.
- 20 April: Tafsut Imazighen (Berber Spring). This day celebrates our mythical Berber forebears, with whom we are inexplicably and inextricably interconnected.
- 22 June: St. Aaron's Day. This day celebrates the King's role as King of Cézembre.
- 24 August: Monarchy Day. This day celebrates the monarchy as a unifying institution of Talossan society.
- 12 October: Sovereign's Birthday. This day celebrates the life of our present monarch.
NOTES: Independence Day, Wargaming Day, and St. Aaron's Day (obviously) already have established associations with the liturgical calendar. Tafsut Imazighen (a Berber holiday, one of four currently celebrated in Algeria) falls on the feast day of Saints Marcellinus, Vincent, and Domninus, three North African priests who were sent to evangelize Gaul in the mid fourth century. Marcellinus was the first bishop of Embrun (Occitan "Ambrun") and died there (or near there, apparently while hiding in the hills avoiding Arian persecution) in 374 AD. North Africans living in Occitania in the late fourth century? These guys might have been laying the foundations of the Talossan language.
Monarchy Day falls on St. Bartholomew's Day, which is also the feast day of the martyrs of Utica (150-300 Christians thrown into a pit of quicklime in Utica, Tunisia around 260 AD). The King's Birthday falls on the feast day of Saints Felix and Cyprian and companions, martyrs. Felix and Cyprian were North African bishops who, along with nearly 5,000 other North African Christians, were driven into the desert in 484 A.D. on the orders of King Huneric of the Vandals for opposing Arianism. We anticipate the issuance of an honours list on each and every regular date on the established calendar. Should heraldic business pile up unreasonably between regular dates, the following dates not included on the above calendar ought to be preferred for the awarding of extraordinary honours:
- 11 January: Labour Day
- 14 March: Accession Day
- 28 May: Juneau Day
- 6 July: Organic Law Day
- 28 September: Democracy Day
- 25 November: Victory Day
If this calendar meets with Your Squirrelness' approval, we request that you propose it to the King for His Majesty's consideration and formal adoption.
Humbly submitted,
Bartleby Pursuivant
Columcille Pursuivant
