re: #4 Destro

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Until the 15th century the Catholic Church celebrated the Circumcision and what is now the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus together. The emphasis on the latter in the preaching of Saint Bernardino of Siena appears to be the origin of the de-coupling.

Up through the 1960s, at least, the Jan 1 feastday for Roman Catholics was definitely “The Circumcision”. Somewhere along the way it got renamed “The Solemnity of Mary”.