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St Martin's Day Kermis by Peeter Baltens (16th century), shows peasants celebrating by drinking the first wine of the season, and a horseman representing the saint. Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), [1] [2] and historically called Old Halloween or Old Hallowmas Eve, [3] [4] is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November.
The Tridentine calendar is the calendar of saints to be honoured in the course of the liturgical year in the official liturgy of the Roman Rite as reformed by Pope Pius V, implementing a decision of the Council of Trent, which entrusted the task to the Pope. The text of the Tridentine calendar can be found in the original editions of the ...
Candlemas. Candlemas, also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Jesus Christ, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Feast of the Holy Encounter, is a Christian feast day commemorating the presentation of Jesus at the Temple by Joseph and Mary. It is based upon the account of the presentation of Jesus in Luke 2:22 ...
The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. [2] According to the General Roman Calendar since 1969, it is formally known as the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (Latin: Sollemnitas Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu) and celebrated on the second Friday after Trinity Sunday (see ยง Date,below.
Pope Francis rides around the faithful after the open air Mass in Tacloban. 17 January 2015. Sri Lanka and Philippines (January 13 to January 19, 2015) Pope Francis visited Sri Lanka on 13โ15 January and the Philippines (15โ19) in January. [ 26][ 27][ 28] In Sri Lanka he paid pastoral visits to Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu in Madhu and ...
A medieval manuscript fragment of Finnish origin, c. 1340 โ1360, utilized by the Dominican convent at Turku, showing the liturgical calendar for the month of June. The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
June 3. Corpus Christi is a moveable feast, celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, [ 11] 60 days after Easter, or, in countries where it is not a holy day of obligation, on the following Sunday. [ 57] The earliest possible Thursday celebration falls on May 21 (as in 1818 and 2285), the latest on June 24 (as in 1943 and 2038).
The earliest evidence for a Feast of the Annunciation or Incarnation is from the fifth century. [2] [5] [6] The first certain mentions of the feast are in a canon, of the Council of Toledo in 656, where it was described as celebrated throughout the Church, and in another of the Council of Constantinople "in Trullo" in 692, which forbade the celebration of any festivals during Lent, excepting ...