Home›Feasts›Observance Type›Commemoration of a person or eventBrowse ByCommemoration of a person or eventThis page groups holidays by what adherents actually do to keep them. Wikipedia notes that in ancient Rome "public business was suspended for the performance of religious rites on the feriae." Browsing by observance type lets a visitor compare how differently two holidays are actually kept.FactsLearn MoreCommemoration of a person or eventSourcesComments (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.Commemoration of a person or eventFilter Results6 entriesTraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (2)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (2)Amish (2)Anabaptism (2)Anglican Communion (4)Anglicanism (4)Armenian Apostolic Church (2)Assyrian Church of the East (2)Calvinism (Reformed) (2)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (2)Church of Cyprus (2)Church of England (5)Church of Greece (2)Church of Ireland (4)Church of Scotland (1)Church of Sweden (4)Church of the Nazarene (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (2)Disciples of Christ (1)Dutch Reformed Church (2)Eastern Orthodoxy (2)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (2)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (3)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (3)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (4)Free Methodist Church (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (2)Global Methodist Church (4)Greek Orthodox Church (2)Lutheranism (4)Maronite Church (2)Mennonites (2)Methodism (4)Moravian Church (2)Old Believers (2)Oriental Orthodoxy (3)Pentecostalism (1)Presbyterianism (1)Protestantism (1)Roman Catholicism (5)Romanian Orthodox Church (2)Russian Orthodox Church (2)Serbian Orthodox Church (2)The Episcopal Church (4)The United Methodist Church (4)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (2)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (2)Wesleyan Church (1)Calendar SystemAllGregorian (civil solar) (5)Julian (Old Calendar) (1)Date TypeAllComputed from another feast (3)Fixed date in its own calendar (3)MonthAllJanuary (1)November (1)Origin EraAll100 (1)350 (1)380 (1)400 (1)731 (1)Place of OriginAllEthiopia (1)UNESCO StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 6All SaintsCommemoration of a person or eventAscension DayCommemoration of a person or eventMaundy ThursdayCommemoration of a person or eventPentecostCommemoration of a person or eventThe Holy InnocentsCommemoration of a person or eventTimkatCommemoration of a person or eventSources1. 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.