boy-bishop

The boy-bishop was chosen from among the children of the monastery school, the cathedral choir, or pupils of the grammar-school.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

The custom of electing a boy-bishop on the feast of St. Nicholas dates from very early times, and was in vogue in most Catholic countries, but chiefly in England, where it prevailed certainly in all the larger monastic and scholastic establishments, and also in many country parishes besides, with the full approbation of authority, ecclesiastical and civil.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

The boy-bishop looked grave, his companions frightened, the Patriarch thoughtful.

Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy 1902

In spite of the doubts thrown upon the monument at Salisbury, it is distinctly recorded that if a boy-bishop died during his term of power, he was to be buried in his vestments and have his obsequies celebrated with the pomp pertaining to an episcopal funeral.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874

At Salisbury on that day the boy-bishop and his boy-prebendaries went in procession to the altar of the Holy Trinity, taking precedence of the dean and resident canons.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874

In 1299, on December 7th, a boy-bishop at Hoton, near

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874

(to avoid interfering, as it should seem, with the boy-bishop of the college there on St. Nicholas's Day) elected _their_ boy-bishop on

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

The ceremony connected with the boy-bishop, which even Colet had thought worthy to be perpetuated in his school, (1269) had been abolished by order of the mayor in 1538. (

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

Another boy-bishop was paid "thirteen shillings and sixpence for singing before King Edward the Third, in his chamber, on the day of the Holy

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

December) a boy-bishop (q.v.) was elected, who officiated on the feast of St. Nicholas and of the Holy Innocents.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913