The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.

The feast of the Annunciation ( which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus ) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.

The ninth century Stowe Missal commemorates his feast day, along with Mellitus and Laurence.

The 1962 calendar includes a second feast on 28 January, which commemorates her birthday.

King Stephen died on the feast day which commemorates the bodily assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Assumption on 15 August, in the year 1038, at Esztergom-Szentkirály or Székesfehérvár, where he was buried.

The Coptic Church commemorates him with a feast day on December 28.

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

The Jewish feast of Hanukkah (" Dedication ") commemorates the restoration of Jewish worship at the temple in Jerusalem in 165 BCE, after Judah Maccabee removed the Hellenistic statuary.

In Eastern Christianity ( the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches ), the Great Feast of Theophany ( Epiphany ) on 6 January is considered a higher-ranked feast than the Nativity ( Christmas ), and commemorates the Baptism of Jesus rather than the arrival of the Wise Men.

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.

In Orthodox Christian tradition, the feast commemorates the baptism of Christ by John the Baptist, which is considered a theophany.

Epiphany is celebrated by both the Eastern and Western Churches, but a major difference between them is precisely which events the feast commemorates.

For Western Christians, the feast primarily commemorates the coming of the Magi, with only a minor reference to the baptism of Jesus and the miracle at the Wedding at Cana.

In Finland, Sweden, and Bavaria, her feast day commemorates the transfer of her relics on 1 May.

Christmas Sunday usually coincides with the " Sunday After the Nativity " feast day that commemorates King David, Saint Joseph ( who is called " Joseph the Betrothed "), and James the Brother of the Lord.

The state recognizes two Muslim feast days as official holidays: Eid ul-Fitr ( Öröz Ayt ), which ends Ramadan, and Eid ul-Adha ( Kurban Ayt ), which commemorates Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son.

The procession during the January 9 feast commemorates the Translación, referring to the transfer of the image to its present shrine in Quiapo church.

The apolytikion could be compared in the Western liturgy to the collect or post-communion, inasmuch as it changes for each feast-day of the year and specifically commemorates the subject of the feast.

The parish feast is celebrated on the 17th of September which commemorates the impression of the stigmata on St Francis.

The Feast of the Intercession is a religious holy day or feast day of the Russian Orthodox Church, which " commemorates an event when an elderly man from the congregation suddenly envisioned the Virgin Mary who stood above the praying people in the air and spread her shroud over them in protection against a Slavic army besieging Constantinople.

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.

* John contains four visits by Jesus to Jerusalem, three associated with the Passover feast.

He also proclaimed the eternality of the Holy Spirit, saying that the Holy Spirit's actions were somewhat hidden in the Old Testament but much clearer since the ascension of Jesus into Heaven and the descent of the Holy Spirit at the feast of Pentecost.

Easter, the preeminent feast that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, is clearly the earliest Christian festival.

After Jesus ascends (), on the feast of Pentecost or Shavuot ( the 50th day from Firstfruits and thus usually calculated as the first day of the week ), the Spirit of God is given to the disciples, who baptize 3, 000 people into the apostolic fellowship.

This last feast recalls the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus ' disciples after the Ascension of Jesus.

A solemnity is the highest ranking feast day in the liturgical calendar of the Latin Church, commemorating an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, or another important saint.

The Brethren love feast is a conscious imitation of Jesus ' last supper with his disciples.

Dates in March, coinciding with the spring equinox, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from January to December.

Easter Sunday, which immediately follows Holy Week, is the great feast day and apogee of the Christian liturgical year: on this day the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated.

* On December 27, probably 1673, the feast of St. John, Margaret Mary reported that Jesus permitted her, as he had formerly allowed St. Gertrude, to rest her head upon his heart, and then disclosed to her the wonders of his love, telling her that he desired to make them known to all mankind and to diffuse the treasures of his goodness, and that he had chosen her for this work.

* During the octave of Corpus Christi, 1675, probably on June 16, the vision known as the " great apparition " reportedly took place, where Jesus said, " Behold the Heart that has so loved men ... instead of gratitude I receive from the greater part ( of mankind ) only ingratitude ...", and asked Margaret Mary for a feast of reparation of the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi, bidding her consult her confessor Father Claude de la Colombière, then superior of the small Jesuit house at Paray.

While Orthodoxy does not make use of the strict classification system of the Roman Catholic Church, it too recognizes and venerates relics which may pertain to Jesus Christ or a saint, such as a relic of the True Cross, the Chains of Saint Peter ( feast day, 16 January ), the grapevine cross of Saint Nino of Georgia, etc.

In the 2nd century, the Resurrection of Jesus became a separate feast as Easter and in the same century Epiphany began to be celebrated in the Churches of the East on January 6.

There is historical evidence that by the middle of the 4th century the Christian churches of the East celebrated the birth and Baptism of Jesus on the same day, on January 6 while those in the West celebrated a Nativity feast on December 25 ( perhaps influenced by the Winter solstice ); and that by the last quarter of the 4th century, the calendars of both churches included both feasts.

The earliest suggestions of a fast of Baptism of Jesus on January 6 during the 2nd century comes from Clement of Alexandria, but there is no further mention of such a feast until 361 when Emperor Julian attended a feast on January 6 in the year 361.

By around 385 the feast for the birth of Jesus was distinct from that of the Baptism and was held on December 25 in Constantinople, Nyssa and Amaseia.

Pope Leo I established a feast of the " Mystery of Incarnation " in the 5th century, in effect as the first formal feast for the Nativity of Jesus.

This feast was removed from the General Roman Calendar in 1969, " because the Most Precious Blood of Christ the Redeemer is already venerated in the solemnities of the Passion, of Corpus Christi and of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and in the feast of the Exaltaton of the Holy Cross.

The Roman Catholic Church marks 10 November as the feast day of Saint Leo, given in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum and the 8th-century Calendar of Saint Willibrord as the date of his death and entry to heaven.

Significantly, for Asterius the Christian feast was explicitly an entry from darkness into light, and although no conscious solar nature could have been expressed, it is certainly the renewed light at midwinter, which was celebrated among Roman pagans, officially from the time of Aurelian, as the " festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun ".

* Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (" Clive of India ") was believed to be living as a tenant at Condover Hall when two of his daughters, Margaret (' Margaretta ' in the registers ) and Elizabeth were baptised at Condover Church respectively in 1763 and 1764 ; after the entry of Elizabeth's baptism, coinciding with Clive's last voyage to India, was written a prayer verse: " An Aged Sire's longing Eyes to feast / And fill with Rapture his Clarinda's Breast / From Indostan unto his native shore / With Laurels crown'd may CLIVE as heretofore / Return, Thou King of Heaven, we implore.

Although more conversational in tone than his previous entry, it did feature the same wacky stunts that would influence David Letterman in later years, including becoming a human hood ornament ; jumping into vats of oatmeal and cottage cheese ; and being slathered with dog food, allowing dogs backstage to feast on the free food.