The heathen English called September Halegmonath, the month of sacred rites. Bede gave only the meaning of the name, in his account of the old English year from before the conversion, and did not say what the rites were.
Halegmonath, the month of holy rites
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Haleg-monath mensis sacrorum.
From Bede's De Temporum Ratione, ch. 15, ed. Giles, vol. 6, p. 179. Read the original
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