For so long as death was not violent, it was natural and to be welcomed, making a funeral a feast.

He further states that the month was named after a goddess Eostre whose feast was in that month.

After his full sister Tamar was raped by Amnon, their half-brother and David's eldest son, Absalom waited two years and avenged her by sending his servants to murder Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

This was done, and the proceedings were ratified by a feast.

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 the late medieval period, Ælfheah's feast day was celebrated in Scandinavia, perhaps because of the saint's connection with Cnut.

The feast day of Titus was not included in the Tridentine Calendar.

The Fête de la Fédération on the 14 July 1790 was a huge feast and official event to celebrate the uprising of the short-lived constitutional monarchy in France and what people considered the happy conclusion of the French Revolution.

On 30 June 1878, a feast had been arranged in Paris by official decision to honour the French Republic ( the event was commemorated in a painting by Claude Monet ).

The accusation occurred in front of the bishop of Hexham of the time, Wilfrid, who was present at a feast when some drunken monks made the accusation.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

The general pattern of Bible reading in 1549 was retained ( as it was in 1559 ) except that distinct Old and New Testament readings were now specified for Morning and Evening Prayer on certain feast days.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

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

When it was added in 1597, it was put on the day of her death, April 29, as now, but because of a conflict with the feast of Saint Peter of Verona, which was also on April 29, it was moved in 1628 to the new date of April 30.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church he is also considered a saint, his feast day being celebrated on 15 June .< ref >

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

She invited Odysseus ' crew to a feast of familiar food, a pottage of cheese and meal, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but also laced with one of her magical potions, and she turned them all into swine with a wand after they gorged themselves on it.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Church celebrate his feast day on 9 June and also, together with Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, on 18 January.

The feast was also historically referred to in English as " Pash " or " Pace ", from the Latin pascha ( see below ).

" Mastellen " are also called " Saint Hubert bread ", because on the Saint's feast day, which is 3 November, the bakers bring their batches to the early Mass to be blessed.

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.

Halloween or Hallowe ' en ( a contraction of its original title " All Hallows ' Evening "), also known as All Hallows ' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the eve before the Western Christian feast of All Hallows.

This day is also celebrated as his feast by the Greek Orthodox Church.

Among Dianic Wiccans, Imbolc ( also referred to as " Candlemas " after the Christian feast that developed independently and occurs on the same day ) is the traditional time for initiations.

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar his feast day is September 22 also ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 22 currently falls on October 5 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria also recognizes John Chrysostom as a saint ( with feast days on 16 Thout and 17 Hathor ).

In the Tridentine Calendar he was commemorated also on each of the following days up to and including 3 January, the Octave of the 27 December feast.

The Tridentine Calendar also had on 6 May a feast of " St John before the Latin Gate ", associated with a tradition recounted by Saint Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

As William Gibbons writes, " Pastor Thomas also mentioned that the two pygmies mimicked the cry of the animal as it was being attacked and speared ... Later, a victory feast was held, during which parts of the animal were cooked and eaten.

There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.

It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.

For the northern solstice, Christian cultures celebrate the feast of St. John from June 23 to 24 ( see St. John's Eve, Ivan Kupala Day, Midsummer ), while Neopagans observe Midsummer, also known as Litha.

* National day, also the feast of Our Lady of Meritxell.

* Victory Day, also the feast of Our Lady of Victories or il-Vittorja ( Malta )

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.

In most of the non-English speaking world, the feast today is known by the name Pascha and words derived from it.

He is known as the patron saint of animals, the environment and one of the two patrons of Italy ( with Catherine of Siena ), and it is customary for Catholic and Anglican churches to hold ceremonies blessing animals on his feast day of 4 October.

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.

In the West it was known as the feast of the Conception ( passive ) of Mary, and was associated particularly with the Normans, whether these introduced it directly from the East or took it from English usage.

These three saints, in addition to having their own individual commemorations throughout the year, are commemorated together on 30 January, a feast known as the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs.

In mediæval times the feast was sometimes known in England and Scotland as the " Gule of August ", but the meaning of " gule " is unclear.

Several antiquaries beginning with John Brady offered a back-construction to its being originally known as Lamb-mass, under the undocumented supposition that tenants of the Cathedral of York, dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula, of which this is the feast, would have been required to bring a live lamb to the church, or, with John Skinner, " because Lambs then grew out of season.

The fixing of the feast of All Saints on its current date of 1 November is attributed to Pope Gregory III ( 731 – 741 ), but from the testimony of Pseudo-Bede it is known that 1 November was already associated with All Saints in Great Britain by the beginning of the 8th century.

In August, at the traditional feast known as kräftskiva, crayfish party, Swedes eat large amounts of crayfish, boiled and then marinated in a broth with salt, a little bit of sugar, and a large amount of dill weed.

* 1500 — Diogo Dias discovered an island they named after St Lawrence after the saint on whose feast day they had first sighted the island later known as Madagascar

Special courses after a feast or dinner which often involved a special room or outdoor gazebo ( sometimes known as a folly ) with a central table set with dainties of " medicinal " value to help with digestion.

The liturgical year, also known as the church year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches which determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years.

In 1667, a Church investigation into the establishment of a feast day produced a document known as the Informaciones Jurídicas de 1666, purporting to gather information from informants whom had had some connection with Juan Diego.

But the raven stopped to feast on carrion, and so Noah cursed it and sent out the dove, which has been known ever since as the friend of mankind.

Her principal symbol is the spiked wheel, which has become known as the Catherine wheel, and her feast day is celebrated on 25 November by most Christian churches.

In 1691 Spanish missionaries came across a small Payaya Indian community along what was then known as the Yanaguana River on the feast day of Saint Anthony, June 13.

The aerospace industry is known for having “ feast or famine ” seasons.

Maundy Thursday ( also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday and Thursday of Mysteries ) is the Christian feast, or holy day, falling on the Thursday before Easter.