Oxfordshire Day | |
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![]() Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford | |
Also called | St Frideswide's Day |
Observed by | The Oxfordshire Association, Diocese of Oxford |
Date | 19 October |
Next time | 19 October 2025 |
Frequency | annual |
Related to | St Frideswide |
Oxfordshire Day is celebrated on 19 October to promote the historic English county of Oxfordshire. [1] It is also the principal feast day of the patron saint of the city and university of Oxford, St Frideswide. [2]
The commemoration of St Frideswide's Day was encouraged in the nineteenth century by Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church. [3] The feast day now appears in the calendars of the Diocese of Oxford [4] and the Roman Catholic Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. [5] Each year there is a civic service to celebrate St Frideswide's Day in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, which houses her shrine. [6]