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Oxfordshire Day is celebrated on 19 October to promote the historic English county of Oxfordshire. It is also the principal feast day of the patron saint of the city and university of Oxford St Frideswide.The commemoration of St Fridewide’s Day was encouraged in the nineteenth century by Henry Liddell Dean of Christ Church. The feast day now appears in the calendars of the Diocese of Oxford and the Roman Catholic Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

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