Editing John the Evangelist (section)

==Feast day==
The [[feast day]] of Saint John in the [[Catholic Church]], [[Anglican Communion]], and the Lutheran Calendar, is on 27 December, the [[Twelve Days of Christmas|third day]] of [[Christmastide]].<ref name="Dame2006">{{cite book|last=Frandsen|first=Mary E. |title=Crossing Confessional Boundaries : The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden|url=https://archive.org/details/crossingconfessi00fran_0|url-access=registration|date=4 April 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195346367|page=[https://archive.org/details/crossingconfessi00fran_0/page/161 161]|quote=On the Feast of St. John the Evangelist (the third day of Christmas) in 1665, for example, peranda presented two concertos in the morning service, his ''O Jesu mi dulcissime'' and ''Verbum caro factum est'', and presented his ''Jesus dulcis'', ''Jesu pie'' and ''Atendite fideles'' at Vespers.}}</ref> In the [[Tridentine calendar]] he was commemorated also on each of the following days up to and including 3 January, the [[Octave (liturgy)|Octave]] of the 27 December feast. This Octave was abolished by [[Pope Pius XII]] in 1955.<ref>General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII</ref> The traditional liturgical color is white.

[[Freemasonry|Freemasons]] [[St. John's Day, Masonic feast|celebrate this feast day]], dating back to the 18th century when the Feast Day was used for the installation of [[Grand Master (Freemasonry)|Grand Masters]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=12&new_day=27&new_year=2015|title=Today in Masonic History – Feast of St. John the Evangelist|website=www.masonrytoday.com|access-date=28 December 2019}}</ref>