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unusual facts about Feast Day



Aberoh and Atom

Their feast day is July 2 in the Coptic Church.

Breage

The chronicler William Worcester wrote in 1478 that Breage's feast day was celebrated on 1 May, and that she was said to be buried at the church dedicated to her.

Cenydd

Cenydd's feast day is celebrated at Llangennith on 5 July (colloquially referred to as his 'Mapsant day', from the Welsh words 'sant' - holy, and 'mab' - son: see also 'Gŵyl Mabsant').

Eric IX of Sweden

Eric would later be considered a saint whose feast day in the Roman Catholic Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is 18 May, although he was never formally canonized by the Pope.

Fiesta Nacional de España

Other than this, however, the holiday is not widely or enthusiastically celebrated in Spain; there are no other large-scale patriotic parades, marches, or other events, and the observation is generally overshadowed by the feast day of Our Lady of the Pillar.

James of Manug

Their feast day is celebrated on August 10 in the Coptic Church, or August 11 in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

Job of Pochayiv

On 28 October 1908 when the Bishop of Volhynia and the faithful celebrated the feast day of Saint Job, the Saint repeatedly appeared in a vision in front of the bishop and blessed the Holy Mysteries (Body and Blood of Christ).

John of Sahagún

In 1729 Pope Benedict XIII inscribed his liturgical feast day in the Roman Calendar for 12 June, since 11 June, the anniversary of his death was occupied by the feast of Saint Barnabas.

Lake St. Clair

He named the body of water Lac Sainte-Claire as the expedition discovered it on the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.

Leonard of Noblac

His feast day is November 6, when he is honoured with a festival at Bad Tölz, Bavaria.

Máedóc of Ferns

The Catholic episcopal seat of Ferns is now at Enniscorthy,it was formerly Ferns, (but the bishop resides in Wexford ,before that,Enniscorthy and before that, again, Ferns - the Anglican diocese is administered from Kilkenny) where there is the beautiful St. Aidan's Cathedral dedicated to St. Aedan, whose patronal feast is observed 31 January.

Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France

The couple's first child was a daughter, born in 1750 on the feast day of Saint Zephyrinus and named Marie Zéphyrine.

Matieu de Caersi

The first plays on the fact that James died a day after the feast day of James, son of Zebedee (Santiago Matamoros): de dos Jacmes dobla festa.ns remanha Dieu ("from two James God has given us a double festival").

Michael A. Perry

Following his university studies, he entered the novitiate of the Province of the Sacred Heart of the Franciscan Order on 25 June 1977, and professed temporary religious vows on 11 August of the following year, the feast day of St. Clare of Assisi.

Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople

Pope Francis was also invited to Constantinople for the feast day of Saint Andrew (30 November).

Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña

The married couple decides to travel to Toledo for the Feast Day of the Assumption of Mary, and the Comendador gives them some tapestries to decorate their cart with.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cabanatuan

The seat of the diocese is the St. Nicholas of Tolentino Cathedral in Cabanatuan City with a feast day of September 10.

Saint Arsenije I Sremac

His feast day is celebrated according to the Orthodox liturgical calendar on October 28 (for those churches, such as the Serbian Orthodox Church, which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, October 28 falls on November 10 of the modern Gregorian Calendar).

Saint Hervé

Saint Hervé is venerated throughout Brittany and his feast day is June 17.

Shrine of the Sacred Heart

The parish houses large devotions to Our Lady of Guadalupe (Sacred Heart hosts her feast day December 12 for the entire archdiocese) and Óscar Romero, the slain Archbishop of San Salvador, though the movement to beatify and possibly canonize Romero appears stalled.

Solemnity

A solemnity is the highest ranking feast day in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite, celebrating a mystery of faith such as the Trinity, an event in the life of Jesus, his mother Mary, or another important saint.

St. Clair Township, Michigan

An expedition led by the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle named it Lac Sainte-Claire, because they entered the lake on August 12, 1679, the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi.

Walter Rauschenbusch

Rauschenbusch is honored together with Washington Gladden and Jacob Riis with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on July 2.

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

The orchestra under Maestro Barenboim, in the presence of President and Mrs. Giorgio Napolitano, performed for Pope Benedict XVI at the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, the abbot Saint Benedict of Nursia's (the founder of the Benedictines) feast day, and thus the name day of the Pope.


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1876 San Felipe hurricane

The storm was remembered as the "San Felipe Hurricane" because it struck on September 13, the feast day of Saint Philip.

1913 Great Meteor Procession

John A. O'Keefe, who conducted several studies of the event, proposed that the meteors should be referred to as the Cyrillids, in reference to the feast day of Cyril of Alexandria (February 9 in the Roman Catholic calendar from 1882–1969).

Abda and Abdjesus

Their feast day is commemorated on 16 May according to the Martyrologium Romanum, the Great Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church, and in the Syrian Church as well.

Abraham, Ethnus, Acrates, James, and John

Their feast day is August 3 in the Coptic Church.

Ad orientem

In 7th century England, Catholic churches were built so that on the very feast day of the saint in whose honor they were named, Mass could be offered on an altar while directly facing the rising sun.

Asnoun

Its parish church and patron saint is Mar Yacoub (St. Jacob, also known as James, son of Zebedee, an apostle of Jesus), and his feast day is celebrated on 25 July each year.

Awtel

A church is dedicated to him in the village of Kfarsghab in North-Lebanon where his feast day is celebrated on 3 June and 27 August.

Battle of Adasa

Judas appointed the 13th of Adar, the day of the victory (161 BC), as a feast-day, and it still has a place in the calendar of special days ("Megillat Ta'anit").

Catald

The Italian towns of San Cataldo are believed to have been named in his honour, and his feast day is 10 May.

Coat of arms of Hordaland

There are two of them to represent Olsok, 29 July and the lesser feast day of Saint Olav, 3 August.

Cuccìa

Cuccìa is a traditional, primarily Sicilian dish containing boiled wheatberries and sugar, which is eaten on December 13, the feast day of Saint Lucy, the patron saint of Siracusa (Syracuse).

Cuthmann of Steyning

German engraving of him with his "cart" by Martin Schongauer, and the inclusion, transcription (from an anonymous source) and printing of his Life in the saints' lives collected in 1658 in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum, giving his feast day as February 8.

Fasting and abstinence of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

The day or days preceding the Feast of the Nativity and the Feast of Theophany is/are a fast day(s) in preparation for the Feast day.

Ferréol of Uzès

His sister Saint Tarsicia of Rodez (died ca 600) lived as a hermit in the Rouergue near Rodez, where she is still venerated by the Benedictines, with a feast day of January 15.

Filbert paintbrush

Philibert was a saint, (who died in 684), whereby the ripening of the nut in August coincides with his feast day.

Hilary term

It runs from January to March and is so named because the feast day of St Hilary of Poitiers, 14 January, falls during this term.

Ice Saints

To the Poles, the trio are known collectively as zimni ogrodnicy (cold gardeners), and are followed by zimna Zośka (cold Sophias) on the feast day of St. Sophia which falls on May 15.

Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

Then-Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke of the Archdiocese of St. Louis ordained two American priests in the United States for the first time at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, Missouri on the feast day of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 15, 2007.

Josip Štadler

He died in Sarajevo in his 75th year on the feast day of the Assumption.

Kazan Kremlin

On July 21, 2005, the feast day of the holy icon "Theotokos of Kazan", in the presence of the crowd of 10,000 pilgrims, Patriarch Alexius II and Mintimer Shaeymiev placed at the newly restored Annunciation Cathedral the holiest copy of the long-lost icon, which had been returned to Russia by Pope John Paul II shortly before his death.

King and Charcoal Burner

One of the main characters – the charcoal burner Matěj – was taken by Lobeský from the puppet theatre play Feast Day in Hudlice (based on the same theme).

Lake St. Clair

It was named after the Clare of Assisi, on whose feast day it was discovered by European explorers.

Life of the Virgin

The important and extended Late Byzantine mosaic cycle of the Chora Church (early 14th century; see Gallery) shows some differences between East and West—the First seven steps of the Virgin were celebrated by an Orthodox feast day—but the 16 scenes taken to reach a point before the Visitation are similar to the 15 taken in Giotto's near-contemporary cycle.

Mainchín of Limerick

In Bruree, his feast day is commemorated on 2 January, but this date may have been erroneously taken from that recorded for St Manchán (Manchéne) of Min Droichit in the Félire Óengusso.

Niagara Catholic High School

In 1954 construction of a new school began to rise adjacent to the old structure and dedicated two years later on January 29, 1956, the feast day of Saint Francis de Sales.

Nicolas Rocks

Named "Cape Nicolas" by Powell after the feast day of Saint Nicholas, December 6, the approximate day of discovery.

Octave of the Nativity

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Roman Catholic feast day moved to January 1 by Vatican II

Orán, Salta

The city was founded on August 31, 1794 by the Spanish military man and governor of Salta, Ramón García de León y Pizarro, who named the settlement after Saint Raymond Nonnatus (on the saint's feast day) and his own birthplace, the city of Oran (in modern Algeria).

Paulinus of Nola

The bones are now found in the small Sicilian city of Sutera, where they dedicate a feast day, and conduct a procession for the saint at Easter each year.

Pedro Tongio Liongson

He was born to Emigdio Liongson and Eulalia Tongio on the feast day of Saint Peter Nolasco in Pampanga’s ancient capital Villa de Bacolor.

Pope Anacletus

The Tridentine Calendar reserved 26 April as the feast day of Saint Cletus, who the church honoured jointly with Saint Marcellinus, and 13 July for solely Saint Anacletus.

Pukapuka

The Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña saw it on the feast day of Saint Bernard, on Sunday 20 August 1595 and named it San Bernardo.

Quintian

Martyrs of Catania (Stephen, Pontian, Attalus, Fabian, Cornelius, Sextus, Flos, Quintian, Minervinus and Simplician) (Feast Day: Dec 31), martyrs in Catania, Sicily

Saint Christina

Saint Christina of Bolsena (Christina of Tyre, Christina the Great Martyr) (feast day: July 24)

Saint Daniel

Daniel Comboni (1831 – 1881), Italian Catholic missionary to Africa, feast day October 10

Daniel, the biblical prophet, feast day July 21 (Roman Catholic) or December 17 (Greek Orthodox)

Daniel (died 1227), Italian Franciscan martyr and missionary to Saracen Spain, feast day October 13

Daniel the Stylite (c. 409 – 493), Mesopotamian monk and ascetic, feast day December 11

Saint Faustina

Mary Faustina Kowalska (1905–1938), Polish nun and saint, feast day October 5

Saint Ferreolus

Ferréol of Uzès (530–581), Catholic saint and bishop, feast day January 4

Saint Publius

In the Orthodox Church however his feast day is observed on March 13, and according to an epistle of Saint Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth, he is placed as the successor of Saint Narcissus of Athens, dating his martyrdom to the period of the persecution under Marcus Aurelius (161-180).

Saint-Émile

Saint Emile was martyred in Carthage in the mid-third century and his feast day is May 22.

Tanjay

Thus, the Sinulog is a religious exercise glorifying the Christians and honoring the feast day of Señor Santiago who is the patron saint of Tanjay and also of Spain.

Valencia, Negros Oriental

Our Lady of the Abandoned is the patroness of Valencia, and her feast day is celebrated annually every October 12 with the town fiesta.

Vidovdan

It is a Slava (Patron saint feast day) of St. Vitus, connected in Serbian culture to the Battle of Kosovo, among other events.

Vincentia

Vincenza Gerosa (1784–1847), Italian saint, Feast Day on June 28

World Day of the Sick

In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation during this feast day, and he cited his declining health as his reason for retiring.