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.

He occupied himself with trying to establish in the west of Europe the feast of the Presentation of the Virgin, the office of which originated in the Greek church and had later been adopted by the Latin church in Cyprus ( Coleman, pp. 3 – 4, 43 ).

The feast of the Our Lady of Sorrows was originated by a provincial synod of Cologne in 1413 as a response to the iconoclast Hussites.

The custom originated with the Greek Orthodox calendar of saints and Roman Catholic calendar of saints, where believers, named after a particular saint, would celebrate that saint's feast day.

The poem, in turn, refers to Belshazzar's feast as related in the Book of Daniel, where the expression the writing on the wall originated.

This feast, like that of the Assumption of Mary, originated in Jerusalem.

Later, at the feast, Efnisien, again feeling insulted, murders Gwern by burning him alive, and, as a result, a vicious battle breaks out.

Later, at the feast, Efnisien, again feeling insulted, murders Gwern by burning him alive, and, as a result, a vicious battle breaks out.

As a result, he declared that Saint James ' feast day ( 25 July ) be celebrated as a national holiday.

To deal with this increase, some saints were moved to alternate days in some traditions or completely removed, with the result that some saints have different feast days in different calendars.

As a result, another feast day, the Uncovering of the Relics of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk was instituted to be celebrated annually on May 14.

The alleged host desecration in 1410, at Segovia, was said to have brought about an earthquake, and as a result, the local synagogue was confiscated and leading Jews were executed ; the event continues to be celebrated as a local feast of Corpus Christi.

They result from the fact that his birthday, 27 January, was the feast day of St. John Chrysostom.

The procession held on the feast day is notorious for the annual casualties that result from the jostling and congestion of the crowds engaged in pulling the carriage.

The result of poll was celebrated with a feast, whose climax was the planting of a liberty pole.

Gina, feeling terrible, confesses she does not have a family when she returns to jail ( also clearing Bart of all charges that would result in him remaining in prison ), but the Simpsons and the warden step in to help Gina by offering a Mexican food feast in her cell at the end.

The feast is supposed to commemorate the dedication of this church, and is first mentioned in the Sacramentary of Adrian I ( 772-95 ).

The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the second person of the Holy Trinity, its dedication feast taking place on 25 December, the anniversary of the Birth of the incarnation of the Logos in Christ.

The reconsecration of the Temple becomes an annual feast of dedication in the Jewish calendar, Hanukkah.

Saturnalia is the feast at which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn, which took place on December 17.

In the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of Philip, along with that of James the Just, was traditionally observed on 1 May, the anniversary of the dedication of the church dedicated to them in Rome ( now called the Church of the Twelve Apostles ).

The feast originally commemorated the dedication of the Basilica of the Resurrection and was linked with the finding of the cross shortly after.

The origins of the feast are less than certain and may have derived from the dedication of three basilicas on Mount Tabor.

Other solemnities which outrank Sundays of Ordinary Time vary from parish to parish and diocese to diocese ; they may include the feast of the patron saint of a parish and the feast of the dedication of the parish church.

The church is often popularly called Our Lady of the Snows, a name given to it in the Roman Missal from 1568 to 1969 in connection with the liturgical feast of the anniversary of its dedication on 5 August, a feast that was then denominated Dedicatio Sanctae Mariae ad Nives ( Dedication of Saint Mary of the Snows ).

In the Roman Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, a memorial is a lower-ranked feast day in honour of a saint, the dedication of a church, or a mystery of religion.

A more ancient celebration associated with the town is St Just feast which is held in November every year to celebrate the dedication of the parish church.

The date of the feast marks the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 335.

The origins of the feast are less than certain and may have derived from the dedication of three basilicas on Mount Tabor.

In 495 BC when the worship of Minerva was introduced, a collegium mercatorum was founded to maintain it, which held its feast on the dies natalis ( dedication day ) of the temple.

Thus, although a small village, the people of Ghaxaq have at heart the feast of St. Mary and this is reflected in their dedication shown during 3 whole weeks of religious and secular activities for St. Mary ’ s feast.

** Dedication of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Cathedral of the Pope ( memorial feast day )

His remains were to be buried in the crypt of Saint Peter's Basilica on the feast day of Our Lady of Fátima, 13 October 1958.

His feast was once celebrated in Rome on 28 June, the anniversary of the placing of his relics in Saint Peter's Basilica, but in the 12th century the Gallican Rite feast of 11 April was admitted to the General Roman Calendar, which maintained that date until 1969.

Pope John Paul II beatified him on May 6, 1990, during a Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, declaring December 9 Juan Diego's feast day, one day after Immaculate Conception and invoking him as “ protector and advocate of the indigenous peoples .”

Thus, the Basilica remains dedicated to the Saviour, and its titular feast is the Transfiguration.

In the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, November 9 is the feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran ( Dedicatio Basilicae Lateranensis ), often referred to in older missals as the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Saviour ( or the holy Saviour ).

In June 2004, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I's visit to Rome for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul ( 29 June ) afforded him the opportunity for another personal meeting with Pope John Paul II, for conversations with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and for taking part in the celebration for the feast day in St. Peter's Basilica.

No action was taken on the proposal until 1969, when the reading of the legend was removed and the feast was called In dedicatione Basilicae S. Mariae ( Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary ).

At the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1932, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Day had prayed for inspiration for her future work.

On September 14, feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Cajetan and his companions made solemn profession before the papal altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, in the presence of Mgr.

It began in the fifth century as the feast of the Basilica Sanctae Mariae ubi nata est, now called the Basilica of Saint Anne.

The early fame of the icon can be gauged from the production of replicas ( a fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua seems to have reproduced it already in the 8th c .), and the role it played in the ritual on the feast of the Virgin's Assumption, where the achiropiite ( the panel painting of Christ from the Lateran Basilica ) was moved in a procession to Santa Maria Maggiore to ' meet ' with it.

Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, then Archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, ordained two United States priests in the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, Missouri on the feast day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 15, 2007.

The Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar, whose feast day is celebrated on October 12, is a magnificent church constructed by Italian missionaries to the city.