According to the story, the Spanish cooks of Louis XIII's bride, Anne, helped to prepare their wedding feast, and insisted upon improving the rich brown sauce of France with Spanish tomatoes.

According to some scholars, All Hallows ' Eve initially incorporated traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honoring the dead, particularly the Celtic Samhain ; other scholars maintain that the feast originated entirely independently of Samhain.

According to the prophet Zechariah, in the messianic era Sukkot will become a universal festival and all nations will make pilgrimages annually to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast there.

According to Lokasenna, Loki rebukes the gods at the start of the poem for not properly welcoming him to the feast at Ægir's hall.

According to Cosmas's Chronicle, one of Boleslav's sons was born on the day of Wenceslaus ' death, and because of the ominous circumstance of his birth the infant was named Strachkvas, which means " a dreadful feast ".

According to legend, King Arthur always gathered all his knights at the round table for a feast and a quest on Pentecost:

According to Nostradamus ' prediction ( Century 1, Quatrain 50 ), a powerful ( but otherwise unidentified ) leader who will threaten " the East " will be born of three water signs and takes Thursday as his feast day.

According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc ( pseudo-Latin: " We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ").

According to tradition, the weather on his feast day ( 15 July ) will continue for forty days.

According to the Vita by his companion Ouen, he'd say: " No Christian on the feast of Saint John or the solemnity of any other saint performs solestitia solstice rites or dancing or leaping or diabolical chants.

According to Saint Gregory of Nyssa, the feast of Nativity in the Eastern Church is not a festival of creation, but of re-creation and renewal.

According to some ancient manuscripts, the feast of St Alexander was commemorated on June 2.

According to Hindu legend, Kanya Devi, an Avatar of Parvati, was to marry Siva, but as he failed to show up on his wedding day, the rice and other grains meant for the wedding feast remained uncooked and remain unused thereafter.

According to cultural historians, this ancient custom was Christianized in the feast of All Saints ' Day, established in Rome first on May 13, in order to de-paganize the Roman Lemuria, while others see a link to the May 13 date in Saint Ephrem's celebration of All Saints on that day in the 4th century.

The Nativity of Christ is a three-day celebration: the formal title of the first day is " The Nativity According to the Flesh of our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ ", and celebrates not only the Nativity of Jesus, but also the Adoration of the Shepherds of Bethlehem and the arrival of the Maji ; the second day is referred to as the " Synaxis of the Theotokos ", and commemorates the role of the Virgin Mary in the Incarnation ; the third day is known as the " Third Day of the Nativity ", and is also the feast day of the Protodeacon and Protomartyr Saint Stephen.

According to marriage-related liturgical norms and canon laws, they are usually not celebrated on Sunday ( unless it is during the afternoon ), and are not generally celebrated on other solemnities or major feast days.

According to Klamath tradition, their medicine men and priests would feast on the mountain's summit and commune with the upper world.

According to the Los Angeles Times, " Great white sharks haunt the waters around San Miguel Island, where they feast on seals and sea lions.

According to the Spring and Autumn Annals of Han and Jin ( 漢晉春秋 ) by Xi Zuochi ( 习鑿齒 ), Sima Zhao, the Duke of Jin and de facto ruler of Wei, one day invited Liu Shan and his followers to a feast, during which Sima Zhao arranged to have entertainers perform traditional Shu music and dance.

" According to Peter Travers, " Haynes creates Velvet Goldmine ..." with a masturbatory fervor that demands dead-on details " and " fashions a structure out of Citizen Kane "; it's a film that " works best as a feast of sight and sound ,... re-creating an era as a gorgeous carnal dream ,... celebrat the art of the possible.

According to the Sacred Canons, all Bishops must be monks ( not merely celibate ), and feast days to Glorified monastic saints are an important part of the liturgical tradition of the church.

According to the Polish secret police, in 1983 more than 400, 000 people attended the informal feast.

According to Orthodox Tradition, Mary died like all humanity, " falling asleep ", so to speak, as the name of the feast indicates.

According to ancient custom, the priest announced the date of Easter on the feast of Epiphany.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

According to scholars, dhimmis had their rights fully protected in their communities, but as citizens in the Islamic state, had certain restrictions.

According to legend, the monastery of San Juan de la Peña, located at the south-west of Jaca, in the province of Huesca, Spain, protected the chalice of the Last Supper from the Islamic invaders of the Iberian Peninsula.

According to the latest research – for example, by Eduard Jacobs and Walther Grosse – there were no early relations with the Abbey at Corvey ( Weser ) and the abbot there, Warin, instead the town name suggests it was a protected clearance settlement.

According to Raiswell ( 1997 ), any Christian would be protected by the earlier edict but the un-baptized were implicitly allowed to be enslaved.

According to the GC III, a captured soldier must be treated as a lawful combatant and, therefore, as a protected person with prisoner-of-war status until facing a competent tribunal ( GC III Art 5 ).

According to this view, John's campaigns benefited the Byzantine Empire because they protected the empire's heartland, which lacked reliable borders, while gradually extending its territory in Asia Minor.

According to the 1979 Act, a monument cannot be a structure which is occupied as a dwelling, used as a place of worship or protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973.

According to Lutyens, it is evident from his notebook that this experience of otherness was “ with him almost continuously ” during his life and gave him “ a sense of being protected .” Krishnamurti describes it in his notebook as typically following an acute experience of the process, for example, on awakening the next day:

According to article 99 and 100 of the General Principle of Civil Law of the People's Republic of China, the right of name and the right of image are protected.

According to an inventory of the Museum's collection conducted between 2004 and 2010, the Palace Museum holds a total of 1, 807, 558 artifacts and includes 1, 684, 490 items designated as nationally protected " valuable cultural relics.

According to its doctrine, the NVA protected peace and secured the achievements of socialism by maintaining a convincing deterrent to imperialist aggression.

According to the local tradition, the Virgin Mary held a cordon around the city which, miraculously, has since protected its people from the disease.

According to its website, the group's aims are to monitor the behavior of soldiers and police at checkpoints ; ensure that the human and civil rights of Palestinians attempting to enter Israel are protected ; and record and report the results of their observations to the widest possible audience, from decision-makers to the general public.

According to the 1920 constitution, German minority rights were to be protected and their educational and cultural institutions were to be preserved in proportion to the population.

According to the law on the protected areas of Russia, national parks are areas of land and water devoted to nature protection, ecological education, and scientific research.

" According to Downey, Dornan, grabbing him by collar and tie, said, " It's good you're being protected by the sergeant-at-arms.

According to Mayo County Council, four buildings in the town are protected under Part IV of the Planning and Development Act 2000.

According to an interview published in the Moskovsky Komsomolets, Luzkhov said that the residents were squatting on land in a " protected environmental zone.

According to legend, after being martyred, ravens protected St. Vincent's body from being devoured by vultures, until his followers could recover the body.

According to many versions of the tale, the mine is either cursed, or protected by enigmatic guardians who wish to keep the mine's location a secret.

According to the school website, Sahaja Yoga education " envisages the development of the child in an atmosphere where the innate qualities, such as innocence and wisdom, are protected and enhanced ; where the students imbibe the timeless and unchanging values which come from inner awareness, and are not subject to the vagaries of fashion, religion or national culture.

According to some observations, a fraction of cohesins in the chromosomal arms and the centromeric cohesins are protected by the protein Shugoshin ( Sgo1 ), avoiding their release during prophase.

According to a statement he released in the mid-1970s, he had had troubles with the Soviet powers in the early 1950s, but was then for a time protected by Ivan Petrovsky, then Rector of the Moscow University.