[Verginius Rufus]

The university calendar in England was traditionally set up with reference to major saints' feastdays such as St. Michael (Sept. 29, Michaelmas). I don't know if the Church of England still observes the feasts but they might.

In the early 1990s one October 4 CNN ran a segment on a Franciscan priest in San Francisco blessing some animals, as if it might be of interest to a wider audience.

[John Locke]

I don't know if the Church of England still observes the feasts but they might.

Here is the relevant section of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

As to whether today's festering corpse of a Church of England still gives a rat's ass for the BCP, I couldn't say.