** Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation.

*** Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos ( Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches )

** Leave-Taking of the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos ( Eastern Catholic Churches )

* 1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas Primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of the " Holy Righteous Prophet and King David " on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers ( two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord ), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus.

* Ecclesiam Suam, an encyclical of Pope Paul VI on the Catholic Church given at St. Peter's, Rome, on the Feast of the Transfiguration, August 6, 1964, the second year of his Pontificate

** Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter ( Roman Catholic Church )

* Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes ( Roman Catholic Church ), and its related observances:

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is observed on December 8 in many Catholic countries as a Holy Day of Obligation and in some places as a national or public holiday.

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.

* Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, principal patrons of the Roman Catholic Church, June 29

* Feast of Our Lady of Peace ( Roman Catholic Church ), and its related observances:

* Roodmas, or Feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross ( Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church )

Since the reform of the Catholic Calendar, May 1st is the Feast of St Joseph the Worker, the patron saint of workers.

In the 16th century, Pope Pius V introduced the rosary into the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar as the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on October 7.

In colonial times all grants of land from the Lords Baltimore were in the shape of leases subject to small and merely nominal ground rents, reserved by the Proprietary, and payable annually at Michaelmas, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, which in the calendar of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches occurs on September 29 ; hence St. Michael was considered to be the patron saint of colonial Maryland, and as such was honored by the river being named for him.

The county is named for the Saint Lawrence River, which in turn was named for the Catholic saint on whose Feast day the river was discovered by French explorers.

While other Christian families throughout the world celebrate the Christmas Eve meal with various meats, Italians and Sicilians celebrate the traditional Catholic " Feast of the Seven Fishes " which was historically served after a 24 hour fasting period.

The Feast of the Sacred Heart has been in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar since 1856, and is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost.

Finally, Venerable Pope Pius XII, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pope Pius IX's institution of the Feast, instructed the entire Roman Catholic Church at length on the devotion to the Sacred Heart in his encyclical letter Haurietis aquas ( on May 15, 1956 ).

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, and is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost.

In view of its role as the mother church of the whole inhabited world, this feast day is celebrated as a Feast in the present universal calendar of the Catholic Church.

The immanence of the triune God is celebrated in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxy during the liturgical calendar feast as the Theophany of God ( see Feast of Theophany ).

On 8 December 1933, she was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius XI in the Catholic Church ; while her Feast Day is observed on April 16.

Jesus underwent Jewish circumcision, here depicted in a Catholic cathedral ; a Feast of the Circumcision | liturgical feast commemorates this on New Year's Day

Mandatory priestly celibacy is not a doctrine, or dogma, of the Church ( examples of Catholic doctrine would be the principle of the absolute respect for life or the belief in the Assumption and Immaculate Conception ) but a church rule or discipline, like the use of the vernacular ( local ) language in Mass or the ancient rule of Lenten fasting and abstinence.

The report " Mary: Faith and Hope in Christ ", by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, concluded that the teaching about Mary in the two definitions of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception can be said to be consonant with the teaching of the Scriptures and the ancient common traditions.

Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church in Saint John

Roman Catholic tradition states that after the Assumption, John went to Ephesus and from there wrote the three epistles traditionally attributed to him.

Catholic tradition says she rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven with both body and soul intact in what is called the Assumption of Mary, however others say her body was taken away lest it become an idol.

The Catholic Church regards him as a Doctor of the Church, often referred to as the Doctor of the Assumption due to his writings on the Assumption of Mary.

Protestants claim, however, that the Roman Catholic Church has added to the Deposit of Faith handed down by the Apostles, especially since the time of Reformation, such as the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary and Papal Infallibility, though Catholics can point to Biblical support for each.

Roman Catholics also counter that the Dogmas of the Assumption and Immaculate Conception are well-supported in the writings of early Church Fathers ( although some Protestants question the way Catholic theologians cite and interpret early Christian writings, or whether they have the same validity as the Holy Scripture ), in addition to being supported by Holy Scripture.

Another two-year college, the private Roman Catholic women's college Assumption College for Sisters, is in Mendham.

Despite the principles of laïcité and the separation of church from state, public and school holidays in France generally follow the Roman Catholic religious calendar ( including Easter, Christmas, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Assumption of Mary, All Saints Day, etc .).

* Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School ( K-8 )

St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church,

St. Barnabas Church, one of the oldest churches in Maryland, is located here, along with St. Mary's of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church.

The City of Herculaneum is home to several churches including Assumption Catholic Church, Buren Chapel AME, United Methodist Church, Assembly of God Church, New Testament Baptist Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints.

A school building was also in operation from 1937 to 1966 as part of the Herculaneum Assumption Catholic Church.

Assumption Regional Catholic School is a Catholic elementary school serving grades Pre-K through 8 with a specially designed Middle School system, operated under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Camden.

Assumption Academy is a parochial school serving grades K-8 that operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Assumption School, located in Atco, is an elementary school that operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.

* Saint Mary's of the Assumption, at Richmond Avenue ( Roman Catholic )

It is also home to seven churches: Assumption Roman Catholic Church, Bible Baptist Church, Church of Christ, Church of the Nazarene, New Egypt United Methodist Church, Plumsted Presbyterian Church, and The Christian Fellowship Church of New Egypt.

The city is also the home of Assumption Academy, a Catholic elementary school, and Lawrence School, a school for children with learning differences.

The Irish had St. John the Evangelist, the Slovaks had St. John the Baptist, the Lithuanians had St. Casimir's, the Germans had St. Mary's Assumption, and the Italians had St. Rocco's and Our Lady of Mount Carmel. There is also a Byzantine Catholic Church on Main Street ( St. Michael's ).