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Voltimand Faldstool holds the consecutive Communions record at the Saint Ogmus parish. In an effort to stop her daughter, Eudoxia, from fidgeting, Emily Faldstool made ninety-two First Fridays, fifty-six First Saturdays, and twelve First Mondays [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 22-3].
The Question Box moderator is asked what someone gets if they make five First Fridays [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 40].
First Fridays and First Saturdays were devotions encouraged by the Church that meant going to Mass and receiving Holy Communion on the first Friday or Saturday of the month for a certain number of months consecutively. Bellairs' suggestion that Caxton made up First Mondays is perfectly accurate.
"It was said that Our Lady would be inclined to grant a special favor that you prayed for," Bowen says. "According to tradition, she had made this promise this in an apparition. First Fridays were the older tradition - you were supposed to do nine of them to satisfy the conditions. I don't recall what apparitions they were associated with, maybe those at Lourdes in the 19th century or maybe some earlier ones. The tradition of five (I think) First Saturdays is associated with the apparitions at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 or so."
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