Home›Feasts›All FeastsBrowse ByAll FeastsFeast days on a religious calendar marked by celebration, often but not always including a specific meal or the breaking of an earlier fast, as distinct from the more general observances subcategory nearby. A feast in this scheme is a day of celebration rather than of solemn observance.FactsLearn MoreAll FeastsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedDays a tradition appoints for celebration, usually commemorating a person or an event and marked by a service and by eating rather than abstaining. The word is a Latin Christian liturgical term for a day of appointed rank in the calendar; extending it to the Islamic eid and to Baha'i holy days is a convenience of this classification, not a term those traditions use. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHolidays & Festivals 1Learn MoreThe feasts This group gathers feasts, the festal days of the religious calendar centred on celebration and, often, shared eating, commemorating a saint, an event of sacred history or a season of the year. In the Christian calendar especially, the feast is a central form of observance. The browser will find the feasts the atlas gathers. The entries describe each feast's occasion, customs and meaning, noting the tradition and the date on which it falls.All FeastsFilter Results38 entriesTraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (3)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (3)Amish (3)Anabaptism (3)Anglican Communion (7)Anglicanism (8)Armenian Apostolic Church (7)Assyrian Church of the East (3)Baptist (1)Calvinism (Reformed) (3)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (3)Church of Cyprus (11)Church of England (11)Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (1)Church of Greece (11)Church of Ireland (7)Church of Scotland (2)Church of Sweden (9)Church of the Nazarene (2)Coptic Orthodoxy (6)Disciples of Christ (2)Dutch Reformed Church (3)Eastern Orthodoxy (12)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (11)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (5)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (5)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (12)Evangelicalism (1)Free Methodist Church (2)Georgian Orthodox Church (11)Global Methodist Church (5)Greek Orthodox Church (11)Latter-day Saints (Mormonism) (1)Lutheranism (12)Maronite Church (6)Mennonites (3)Methodism (5)Moravian Church (3)National Baptist Convention of America (1)Old Believers (11)Oriental Orthodoxy (8)Pentecostalism (2)Presbyterianism (2)Progressive National Baptist Convention (1)Protestantism (2)Roman Catholicism (26)Romanian Orthodox Church (11)Russian Orthodox Church (11)Serbian Orthodox Church (12)The Episcopal Church (8)The United Methodist Church (6)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (11)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (11)Wesleyan Church (2)Calendar SystemAllBadi (Bahai) (3)Gregorian (civil solar) (27)Islamic Hijri (lunar) (2)Julian (Old Calendar) (7)Roman civil calendar (1)Date TypeAllComputed from another feast (10)Fixed date in its own calendar (26)Set by an astronomical event or computus (2)Observance TypeAllAlmsgiving / offering (2)Commemoration of a person or event (6)Fast / abstinence (1)Feast / celebration (27)Martyrdom remembered (1)Memorial of the dead (1)Nativity / birth remembered (4)Pilgrimage (4)Procession (2)Purification (2)Veneration of a deity or holy figure (12)MonthAllAugust (3)December (3)February (2)January (3)March (1)May (1)November (2)September (3)Origin EraAll100 (1)200 (2)274 (1)335 (1)336 (1)350 (1)380 (1)384 (1)400 (1)450 (3)500 (2)624 (2)700 (2)731 (1)998 (1)1000 (1)1246 (1)1423 (1)1531 (1)1673 (1)1817 (1)1819 (1)1858 (1)1917 (1)1925 (1)2000 (1)HonoursAllSol Invictus (1)Place of OriginAllBelgium (1)Ethiopia (1)France (2)Iran (1)Italy (1)Mexico (1)Poland (1)Portugal (1)UNESCO StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (2)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (22)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 38All SaintsFeastsAll Souls' DayFeastsAscension DayFeastsBirth of Baha'u'llahFeastsBirth of the BabFeastsCandlemasFeastsChrist the KingFeastsChristmasFeastsCorpus ChristiFeastsDies Natalis Solis InvictiFeastsDivine Mercy SundayFeastsDormition of the TheotokosFeastsEid al-AdhaFeastsEid al-FitrFeastsEpiphanyFeastsExaltation of the Holy CrossFeastsFeast of the AssumptionFeastsFeast of the Immaculate ConceptionFeastsLazarus SaturdayFeastsMaundy ThursdayFeastsMichaelmasFeastsNativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryFeastsNineteen Day FeastFeastsOur Lady of FatimaFeastsOur Lady of GuadalupeFeastsOur Lady of LourdesFeastsOur Lady of Mount CarmelFeastsOur Lady of SorrowsFeastsPentecostFeastsSlavaFeastsThe AnnunciationFeastsThe Holy InnocentsFeastsThe Sacred Heart of JesusFeastsThe TransfigurationFeastsThe Triumph of OrthodoxyFeastsTheophanyFeastsTimkatFeastsTrinity SundayFeastsSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editiontier 1F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.