Boy Bishop

Boy bishop was a name given to a custom very widespread in the Middle Ages, whereby a boy was chosen, for example among cathedral choristers, to parody the real Bishop, commonly on the feast of Holy Innocents. This custom was linked with others, such as that of the Feast of Fools and the Feast of Asses.

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Famous quotes containing the words boy and/or bishop:

    ““Oh, where have you been, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    Oh, where have you been, charming Billy?”
    “I’ve been to seek a wife,
    She’s the joy of my life,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.””
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 1–5)

    “A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience.”
    —Mervyn, Bishop Stockwood (b. 1913)