On the evening of St Catherine’s Day 1553, five hundred great lights were carried round the steeple of St Paul’s in her procession. Queen Mary had revived the saint’s procession after the Reformation. Three years later, Strutt read in Strype, St Catherine’s image was taken round the battlements with singing and many lights.
Five hundred lights round St Paul’s steeple
25 November · St Paul's Cathedral, London
No longer kept
on the evening of Saint Catherine's day, her procession was celebrated at London with five hundred great lights, which were carried round Saint Paul's steeple
From Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, 2nd ed., p. 320. Read the original
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