The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

In general, Theodish religious festivities are referred to as ' fainings ' ( meaning ' celebration ').

The Cantigas are composed of 420 poems, 356 of which are in a narrative format relating to Marian miracles ; the rest of them, except an introduction and two prologues, are of lore or involve Marian festivities.

Some are closely linked to Swedish festivities.

The festivities are now streamed live over the Internet.

For example, in some Muslim countries today lights are strung up in public squares, and across city streets, to add to the festivities of the month.

In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities.

Masks are central to the Carnival celebration, and worn to many of the festivities, including concerts and parties.

In many other regions, festivities of smaller extent are organized, focused on the reenactment of traditional carnevalic customs ; for example those held in Tyrnavos ( Thessaly ), Kozani ( West Macedonia ), Rethymno ( Crete ) and in Xanthi ( East Macedonia and Thrace ).

They are groups of friends who create and personalize a uniformed suit which is worn every year during the festivities.

Although the official feast day of St. Joseph, the town's patron saint, is March 19, it's celebrated in Bagheria the first Sunday of August ; religious celebrations are held throughout the week leading up to Sunday, when more solemn ceremonies are initiated ; the following Monday evening festivities conclude with a fireworks display.

In front of the station, there are a plethora of festivities that go on, mainly seasonal activities such as housing the town Christmas tree, decorating the plaza for a holiday, and sometimes parties.

Most of them have a church and a " Casa do Povo " ( people's house ), where the village's summer romarias or religious festivities are usually held.

( Interestingly, the St. Francis festivities in Magdalena are held in the beginning of October ( the anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi ), and not at the time of St. Francis Xavier, who was a Jesuit.

Additionally, Howard along with fellow LGBT Activists Robert A. Martin ( aka Donny the Punk ) and L. Craig Schoonmaker are credited with popularizing the word " Pride " to describe these festivities.

Important events and festivities such as the Spring Festival ( Chinese New Year ) and the Mid-Autumn Festival were and still are times when fireworks are guaranteed sights.

According to the French ambassador, the marriage " was celebrated with a magnificence that it would be hard to surpass, by the side of which even the brilliant festivities that have preceded it are not to be mentioned.

Meals such as cuy chactado are always served as part of these festivities, and the killing and serving of the animal is framed by some communities as a symbolic satire of local politicians or important figures.

Today, tamales are often eaten during festivities, such as Christmas, the Day of the Dead, Las Posadas, La Candelaria Day ( February 2 ) and Mexican Independence Day.

Live entertainment, a carnival, and a flea market are also part of the festivities.

At special festivals, especially the Duanwu Festival, dragon boat races are an important part of festivities.

*** The Classic of Poetry is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities, 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.

Bonfires played a large part in the festivities celebrated down through the last several centuries, and up through the present day in some rural areas of the Celtic nations and the diaspora.

A week after the holiday's ended ; some of the people of Corte Madera would stack their used trees high in the center of town in an open lot in front of the Presbyterian church and shops, most of the town showed up with candles in hand for the burning of the trees ; with the aid of the local fire department gas was spread at the base of the pyramid of trees to start the festivities.

The festivities included a steam-powered merry-go-round, sack races, foot races, minstrel shows, side shows, produce sales, and lemonade dipped up from zinc tubs.

Annual festivals and events in Blowing Rock include: the " Art In The Park " festival, a monthly summertime ( May-Oct ) event in downtown Blowing Rock where artists set up booths to sell their work to tourists ; the Fourth of July festival and parade ; Blowing Rock Winterfest in November ; the Blue Ridge Wine and Food Festival in April ; Christmas in the Park and Lighting of the Town festivities, including a Holiday Parade ; the Symphony by the Lake at Chetola Resort ; and the Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show which has been a tradition for 84 years.

In 1905, during Dussehra festivities Vinayak organised setting up of a bonfire of foreign goods and clothes.

Suspects were her father, her 9-year-old mental defective brother, a drunk villager, or one of her relatives during one of frequent festivities celebrated by Andean Indians which often ended up in orgies in which rape was not uncommon.

The Johnsmas Foy festivities on the Shetland Isles ( north of Scotland ), where the people are still proud of their Nordic roots also take place in the week building up to the 23 / 24 June.

However, the Pirates also usually perform loud — occasionally offensive — antics at Seafair ( in an attempt to live up to their name ) that cause perennial objection to their prominent involvement in the festivities.

Every two years the house hosts a night-time Christmas celebration called " Aston Hall by Candlelight ", in which actors help bring the period setting alive with mock 17th-century festivities, and the house is lit up by 500 candles.

Steamboats ( or at least boats with an appropriate appearance ) then traveled up the river to the Twin Cities in Minnesota, stopping daily and often becoming part of other festivities planned in local communities.

In addition to the Parade and the final rallies, in many cities there are days or up to whole weeks of street festivals and cultural events with artists, political events, lectures, readings, parties and other festivities.

On 5 May 1788, amidst general festivities, the Estates-General convened in an elaborate but temporary lle des États set up in one of the courtyards of the official Hôtel des Menus Plaisirs in the town of Versailles near the royal château.

The agha welcomes his guests and puts them up at the hotel, has dinners, and organizes festivities.

This was a change from the normal opening day festivities of fans lining up outside the company's headquarters in Glen Head to pick up their new baseball products.

They came up with an idea of non-competitive " race " in which any kind of rowing boat could participate, in the spirit of historical festivities.

As the directors wanted to include their dreams of economic growth as well, they combined the two ideas into a title that “ summed up the dual goals of historic commemoration and regional boosterism: ‘ The Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair .’” In addition, a motto was decided on, to focus the festivities and bolster publicity: “ Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way .”

Organizers promised that the rally would draw 5, 000 people, though less than one hundred showed up, and a plan to protest WDET's changes during the Super Bowl XL festivities also failed to occur.

These festivities normally include a lot of variety entertainment including performance of ceremonial rites by the Igwe ( King ), cultural dances by Igbo men, women and their children as well as a display of Igbo cultural activities in the form of contemporary shows, masquerade dance, and feasting at a grand scale on a wide variety of food making up the menu of the Igbos.

The nurse tells her that she should cheer up, because she will enjoy the marriage festivities that night, and Juliet resolves to find another lover.

Frollo breaks up the festivities and orders Quasimodo to kidnap Esmeralda and bring her to him that night so that she can be imprisoned as a sorceress and a violator of public decency (" La Sorciere ").