St Albert's feast day is celebrated on November 15.

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

Symbel is normally held after the feast, inasmuch as it is custom not to have food present.

" 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.

The feast day of the Roman martyr Felix is 29 July.

Her feast day, December 16, is still kept in many German dioceses.

Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

His feast day is observed on 2 May, the day of his death.

He is celebrated in many churches on his feast days: 30 January in the Old-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church ; 17 January in the New-Calendar Eastern Orthodox Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Catholic Church.

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.

The " Song of the Three Holy Youths " is part of the Matins service in Eastern Orthodoxy, and of Lauds on Sundays and feast days in Catholicism.

The feast day of Barnabas is celebrated on June 11.

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 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 >

A feast day will be designated, but its observance is normally restricted to the Blessed's home diocese, to certain locations associated with him or her, and / or to the churches or houses of the blessed's religious order, if they belonged to one.

The saint is assigned a feast day which may be celebrated anywhere within the Catholic Church, although it may or may not appear on the general calendar or local calendars as an obligatory feast, parish churches may be built in his or her honor, and the faithful may freely and without restriction celebrate and honor the saint.

" Student ID cards sometimes indicate whether a student is Muslim, and will allow access to these dining areas, or will allow access on special occasions such as the Eid feast following Ramadan.

There is a notable feast in Teochew cuisine / banquet called jiat dot ().

Other festivals celebrated here include Carnival, the feast of San Isidro Labrador on 15 May and a crafts and livestock fair called the Nao de China in November.

In antiquity, Greek reports of cannibalism, ( often called anthropophagy in this context ) were related to distant non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in Greek mythology to the ' primitive ' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods: see the explicit rejection of human sacrifice in the cannibal feast prepared for the Olympians by Tantalus of his son Pelops.

The second century equivalent of Easter and the Paschal Triduum was called by both Greek and Latin writers " Pascha ( πάσχα )", a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic form of the Hebrew פ ֶּ ס ַ ח, the Passover feast of Exodus 12.

" 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.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of " the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin ", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the " glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin " and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that " the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin ", since, he said, " up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See.

The sacrificial feast followed, after which the Luperci cut thongs from the skins of the victims, which were called februa, dressed themselves in the skins of the sacrificed goats, in imitation of Lupercus, and ran round the walls of the old Palatine city, the line of which was marked with stones, with the thongs in their hands in two bands, striking the people who crowded near.

In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is referred to regularly, it is called " the feast of first fruits ".

In the 13th century, the feast of Saint Melchiades ( as he was then called ) was included, with the mistaken qualification of " martyr ", in the Roman Calendar for celebration on 10 December.

This tomb is to be designed by a well-known tomb-builder called Habinnas, who is among the revellers present at Trimalchio's feast.

Traditionally, in Celtic and Germanic Europe, the feast of Samhain ( called Allelieweziel in DeitschSchreiwer, Robert L. < i > A Brief Introduction to Urglaawe .</ i > Bristol, PA: Deitscherei. com, 2009 .</ ref >) was specially associated with the deceased, and, in these countries, it was still customary to set a place for them at table on this day until relatively recent times.

A period of eight days, starting and ending on a Sunday or starting on a major feast day and finishing on the same day of the week a ( seven-day ) week later, is called an octave.

It is so called because 25 October is the feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian.

The feast is also called Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit, especially in England, where the following Monday was traditionally a holiday.

The county day, called Sussex Day, is celebrated on 16 June, the same day as the feast day of St Richard of Chichester, Sussex's patron saint, whose shrine at Chichester Cathedral was an important place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages.

Hancock hosts an annual midwinter festival called Heikinpäivä, celebrating the feast day of Saint Henrik, patron saint of Finland and Heikki Lunta, the Finnish god of snow.

At Matins on Sundays and feast days throughout the year, special hymns called anavathmoi (, from βαθμός, ' step '; Slavonic: stepénnyi ) are chanted immediately before the prokeimenon and Matins Gospel.

The three days of the feast were called Pithoigia ( after πίθοι " storage jars "), Choës ( χοαί " libations "; ) and Chytroi ( χύτροι " pots ").

So as to make peace between the kingdoms, Branwen and Matholwch's young son, Gwern, ascends to the throne of Ireland and, during the feast held in the Great House in his honour, is called in turn to his uncles Bran, Manawydan and Nisien.

Ignorant of the Egyptian language for the most part, the Arabs confused the Egyptian new year's celebrations, which the Egyptians called the feast of Ni-Yarouou ( the feast of the rivers ), with the Persian feast of Nowruz.

In the month of Zip, the feast Ihcil Ixchel was celebrated by the physicians and shamans ( hechiceros ), and divination stones as well as medicine bundles containing little idols of " the goddess of medicine whom they called Ixchel " were brought forward.

Another exception is Russian, in which the name of the feast, Пасха ( Paskha ), is a borrowing of the Greek form via Old Church Slavonic.

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

Although Barlaam was never formally canonized, Josaphat was, and they were included in earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology ( feast day 27 November ) — though not in the Roman Missal — and in the Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar ( 26 August in Greek tradition etc.

The Agnus Dei would have been chanted in both Greek and Latin during this period, in the same manner as the other liturgical changes of Sergius I. Sergius I himself composed a litany in Greek ( extant in the Athelstan Psalter to be recited on the feast of all saints.

Given this is the feast day used by the Greek Orthodox Church, it has been argued that the discovery was probably made on 18 August, the feast day used by the Roman Catholic Church.

On 8 November 1912 ( 26 October Old Style ), the feast day of the city's patron saint, Saint Demetrius, the Greek Army accepted the surrender of the Ottoman garrison at Thessaloniki.

His feast is celebrated on this day both in the Greek and Roman Churches ; the Greeks also observe 2 June as the day of his death.

In the Roman Martyrology his feast is celebrated on 2 January ; the Greek Church celebrates it on 22 February.

The bacchanalia were rites originally held in ancient Greece as the Dionysia. The most famous of the Greek Dionysia were in Attica and included ... a festal procession ... a drinking feast dramatic performances in the theatre of Dionysus.

Greek myth also has it that Nephele is the cloud whom Zeus created in the image of Hera to trick Ixion to test his integrity after displaying his lust for Hera during a feast as a guest of Zeus.

The third day, especially the evening and night that began the Greek day, was a meat feast in celebration of the Kalligeneia, a " goddess of beautiful birth " who appears in no other contexts and has no counterpart among the Olympian gods, further emphasizing the archaic, pre-Olympian nature of this festival that reinforced female solidarity.

In Greek mythology, Nyctimus was the son of Lycaon who was killed and served up as part of a feast to Zeus.

The Greek senior officers foolishly accepted the invitation of Tissaphernes to a feast.

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 ).

* Psalter ( Greek: Ψαλτήρ ( ιον ), Psalter ( ion ); Slavonic: Ѱалтырь or Ѱалтирь, Psaltyr ' ) A book containing the 150 Psalms divided into 20 sections called Kathismata together with the 9 Biblical canticles which are chanted at Matins ; although these canticles had been chanted in their entirety, having over time come to be supplemented by interspersed hymns ( analogously to stichera ) to form the Canon, the canticles themselves are now only regularly used in a few large monasteries The Psalter also contains the various " selected psalms ", each composed of verses from a variety of psalms, sung at matins on feast days, as well as tables for determining which Kathismata are to be read at each service ; in addition to the Psalms read at the daily offices, all the Psalms are read each week and, during Great Lent, twice a week.

The Greeks have no feast of this kind, but the Ruthenians, followed by all the Slavs of the Greek Rite, have a feast, called Patrocinii sanctissimæ Dominæ etc., or Pokrov Bogorodicy, fixed on 1 October, which, however, would seem to correspond more with the Catholic Feast of the Scapular.

His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is 22 February, the Canons Regular keep his feast on 23 February, the Coptic Church on 29 August and 29 March, and the Greek Orthodox Church on 22 February.