| Holiday Name: | Oxfordshire Day |
| Type: | County day |
| Nickname: | St Frideswide's Day |
| Observedby: | The Oxfordshire Association, Diocese of Oxford |
| Date: | 19 October |
| Duration: | 1 day |
| Frequency: | annual |
| Scheduling: | same day each year |
| Relatedto: | St Frideswide |
Oxfordshire Day is celebrated on 19 October to promote the historic English county of Oxfordshire.[1] It is also the principal feast day of the patron saint of the city and university of Oxford, St Frideswide.[2]
The commemoration of St Frideswide's Day was encouraged in the nineteenth century by Henry Liddell, Dean of Christ Church.[3] The feast day now appears in the calendars of the Diocese of Oxford[4] and the Roman Catholic Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.[5] Each year there is a civic service to celebrate St Frideswide's Day in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, which houses her shrine.[6]