Bernardino de Sahagún provides a more conservative population estimate of 20, 000 on ordinary days and 40, 000 on feast days.

In what is now the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, feast days are ranked ( in descending order of importance ) as solemnities, feasts or memorials ( obligatory or optional ).

At Matins, Orthodox worship specifies a Great Doxology for feast days and a Small Doxology for ordinary days.

Also, as one would expect, ordinary food served at home is different from that served during social functions and festivals, and again very different from what might be served at a larger gathering ( e. g. a marriage feast ).

His feast day is July 21, in both the ordinary and extraordinary forms.

This 1, 900-page book contains most versions of the ordinary chants for the Mass ( Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei ), as well as the common chants for the Divine Office ( daily prayers of the Church ) and for every commonly celebrated feast of the Church Year ( including more than two hundred pages for Holy Week alone ).

The second century equivalent of Easter and the Paschal Triduum was called by both Greek and Latin writers " Pascha ( πάσχα )", a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic form of the Hebrew פ ֶּ ס ַ ח, the Passover feast of Exodus 12.

Another exception is Russian, in which the name of the feast, Пасха ( Paskha ), is a borrowing of the Greek form via Old Church Slavonic.

The Great Assembly is credited with establishing numerous features of contemporary traditional Judaism in something like their present form, including Torah reading, the Amidah, and establishing the feast of Purim.

* Madrigal dinner, a form of dinner theater incorporating comedy, madrigals, and a feast

Christianity itself has been perceived at times as a form of polytheism by followers of the other Abrahamic religions because of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity ( which at first glance appears indistinguishable from Tritheism, though this is variously condemned as heresy or apostasy by the main Christian denominations ) or the celebration of Pagan feast days and other practices – through a process described as " baptizing " or " Christianization ".

His third-class feast day is kept on January 16 in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

In 1969 it was removed from that calendar of obligatory liturgical celebrations, and his feast was moved to the day of his death, 10 January, with his name given in the form " Miltiades " and without the indication " martyr ".

In the pre-1970 form, this feast is celebrated on 13 January, unless 13 January is a Sunday, in which case the feast of the Holy Family is celebrated instead.

In accordance with the rules then in force, feast days of any form of double, if impeded by " occurrence " ( falling on the same day ) with a feast day of higher class, were transferred to another day.

In the Roman calendar of saints, Hilary's feast day is on 13 January, 14 January in the pre-1970 form of the calendar.

The word agape in its plural form is used in the New Testament to describe a meal or feast eaten by early Christians, as in Jude, and 2nd Peter.

The earliest feast days of saints were those of martyrs, venerated as having shown for Christ the greatest form of love, in accordance with the teaching: " Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

The Creation Seventh Day Adventists partake of an Agape feast as a part of their New Moon observances, taking the form of a formal, all-natural meal held after the communion supper.

Great Vespers is the form served on Sundays and major feast days ( those of Polyeleos rank or above ) when it may be celebrated alone or as part of an All-Night Vigil, or as the commencement of the Divine Liturgy, or on a few special occasions, e. g., Good Friday or Pascha afternoon.

* Psalter ( Greek: Ψαλτήρ ( ιον ), Psalter ( ion ); Slavonic: Ѱалтырь or Ѱалтирь, Psaltyr ' ) A book containing the 150 Psalms divided into 20 sections called Kathismata together with the 9 Biblical canticles which are chanted at Matins ; although these canticles had been chanted in their entirety, having over time come to be supplemented by interspersed hymns ( analogously to stichera ) to form the Canon, the canticles themselves are now only regularly used in a few large monasteries The Psalter also contains the various " selected psalms ", each composed of verses from a variety of psalms, sung at matins on feast days, as well as tables for determining which Kathismata are to be read at each service ; in addition to the Psalms read at the daily offices, all the Psalms are read each week and, during Great Lent, twice a week.

Alma develops a grudge against Alison when Alison tells Claudine that someone has been pilfering the goods which were to be used for the second form feast ( the culprit is Alma ).

Hearths and deposits of pottery and animal bone found by archaeologists around some tombs also implies that some form of burial feast or sacrificial rites took place there.

Perotin even went as far as composing two four-part organa ( quadrupla ), Viderunt omnes and Sederunt principes which were performed in Notre Dame in 1198 on New Year's Day and in 1199 on the feast of St. Stephen ( a decree of Odon de Sully, Bishop of Paris, exists which stipulates the performance of ' organa tripla vel quadrupla ') Apart from organa, Perotin extended the form of the Aquitanian Versus which was henceforth called conductus.

The large Dakhla stela provides a lunar date in the form of a wrš feast in year 5 of Shoshenq, yielding 943 BC as his year 1.

Primo and Secondo plunge themselves into preparations for this " big night ", spending their last savings on the food and inviting dozens of people ( including a newspaper reporter ) to join them in a magnificent feast centered around a timpano ( a form of timballo, a complicated baked pasta dish ).

Her feast day in the extraordinary form calendar of the Catholic Church is October 21.

* 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church assigned the feast to 26 January so as to celebrate the two disciples of Paul, Titus and Timothy, on the day after the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

The feast day of the Roman martyr Felix is 29 July.

His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church falls on 17 March.

He is celebrated in many churches on his feast days: 30 January in the Old-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church ; 17 January in the New-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church.

St. Columbanus is named in the Roman Martyrology on 23 November, but his feast is kept by the Benedictines and throughout Ireland on 24 November.

The Roman Catholic Church did not commemorate Saint Cyril in the Tridentine Calendar: it added his feast only in 1882, assigning to it the date of 9 February.

Her feast day, at the time, was not included in the Roman Calendar.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.

Western Rite churches ( Roman Catholic, Lutheran ) celebrate his feast day on 29 December, Eastern-rite on 19 December.

His Roman Catholic feast day of 9 June conforms to his date of death.

In the Roman Catholic calendar of saints Gregory Nazianzen's feast day is on January 2.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

In the Roman Catholic Church, the twelve minor prophets are read in the Breviary during the fourth and fifth weeks of November, which are the last two weeks of the liturgical year, and his feast day is January 15.

Her feast day is celebrated on the Roman Catholic calendar of saints on 16 October.

On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of " the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin ", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the " glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin " and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that " the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin ", since, he said, " up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See.

His feast day is on June 28 in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, where it was inserted for the first time in 1920 ; in 1960 it was transferred to July 3, leaving June 28 for the Vigil of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, but in 1969 it was returned to June 28, the day of his death.

Although Barlaam was never formally canonized, Josaphat was, and they were included in earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology ( feast day 27 November ) — though not in the Roman Missal — and in the Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar ( 26 August in Greek tradition etc.

The feast day of Saint John in the Roman Catholic Church, which calls him " Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist ", and in the Anglican Communion, which calls him " John, Apostle and Evangelist ", is on 27 December.

Pope John XXIII removed this feast from the General Roman Calendar in 1960, along with various other second feasts of a single saint.

* May 1 is the feast of St. Joseph the worker in the Roman Catholic calendar.