Medieval Lead Boy Bishop Penny Token Festival of St Nicholas 4

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Seller: taylajack7-0 ✉️ (1,285) 0%, Location: Brentwood, GB, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 192796238812 Medieval Lead Boy Bishop Penny Token Festival of St Nicholas 4.  Crude Medieval Lead Boy Bishop Token (St Nicholas Pence) Obverse: Crude Bishops mitre, pattern around. Reverse: Long cross, pattern around. The cult of St Nicholas and its associated 'Boy Bishop'  tradition—which derived from the saint's patronage of children and involved the choosing of a boy to be dressed up as the saint, who then performed ecclesiastical duties in the period around St Nicholas's Day (6 December) and Holy Innocents (28 December)—seems to have been widespread throughout England in the late medieval period, to judge from both the prevalence of dedications  to St Nicholas and the number of references  to Boy Bishops that are found in sources of this era. For example, in the fifteenth century at King's College, Cambridge, the Boy Bishop was allowed to 'say and carry out vespers, matins, and other divine services', and the Boy Bishop's mitre there in the early sixteenth-century was a gift from Bishop Geoffrey Blythe of Chester, indicating the official approval of the tradition. Similarly, at Lincoln in the 1530s, a Boy Bishop celebrated vespers on the vigil of Holy Innocents; at Exeter, the cathedral chapter lent the Boy Bishop his garments and mitre; at York, the Boy Bishop would preach a sermon and then travel the region delivering it at other churches, such as Beverley, Leeds and Fountains Abbey; and at Westminster Abbey, the Boy Bishop had a special mitre made of white silk with  Ora pro nobis Sancte Nicholai  embroidered on it. Furthermore, Boy Bishops were not restricted to just the great churches and abbeys of England. Many of the churches in London had their own Boy Bishops, with vestments ranging from buckrum at St Martin, Ludgate, to red silk at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, as did churches in ports and market towns such as New Romney (Kent), and Louth (Lincolnshire).

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