Was it a system unique to schools in the care of the Sisters of Notre Dame? I have no idea and it probably betrays my vintage. However, during the last days of Pope Pius XII and the first of Pope John XXIII, May and June found themselves spectacularly marked by "honouring days".
At least in St Michael's primary school in Liverpool, the teacher divided the class into pairs of eager children and allocated each duo their "honouring day" on which they would lead their classmates in honouring Mary or the Sacred Heart.
