The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

Library Feasts of the Church Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha The Sundays of Great Lent Learn: Sunday of St. Mary of Egypt On the Fifth Sunday of Lent the Orthodox Church commemorates our Righteous ...

The Roman basilica of St. John Lateran marks the 1,700th anniversary of its dedication on Saturday, Nov. 9. It’s a feast day ...

One narrative suggests that Pope Boniface IV declared it a feast day on May 13, 609 AD, when he consecrated the Pantheon in ...

Boston College's Jesuit Community, Intersections program, and Center for Ignatian Spirituality invite members of the BC community and their families to celebrate the feast day on Friday, July 29, with ...

In 1969, the Catholic Church said that the annual feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene, on 22 July, relates only to the woman who saw the risen Jesus and not the other women mentioned by Pope Gregory.

Translated by Mother Mary (South Canaan, PA: St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press ... A Great Vespers is conducted on the evening before the day of the Feast. Scripture readings for the Feast of the Dormition ...

This calendar is not an exhaustive list either of religious or cultural traditions or of the holidays observed in those traditions. If we have not included a religious tradition or major religious ...

People have gathered at Glastonbury Tor to honour Mary Magdalene's feast day. The day is celebrated in honour of the Christian saint who was said to have been the first to witness Christ's ...

All Saints Day is a Christian holiday that typically falls on Nov. 1. People celebrate with Mass, prayer and sometimes dress ...

However, one significant holiday for many Christians falls at the very start of November—All Saints' Day. Every fall, ...

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque — whose feast day is celebrated in the Catholic Church on Oct. 16 — was a French nun responsible for spreading the devotion of the Sacred Heart throughout the ...