Home›Feasts›Observance Type›Feast / celebrationBrowse ByFeast / celebrationThis 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 MoreFeast / celebrationSourcesComments (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.Feast / celebrationFilter Results27 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 (10)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 (11)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (11)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (4)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (4)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 (7)Pentecostalism (2)Presbyterianism (2)Progressive National Baptist Convention (1)Protestantism (2)Roman Catholicism (19)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) (1)Gregorian (civil solar) (20)Islamic Hijri (lunar) (2)Julian (Old Calendar) (5)Roman civil calendar (1)Date TypeAllComputed from another feast (9)Fixed date in its own calendar (18)MonthAllAugust (3)December (2)February (1)January (2)March (1)November (1)September (3)Origin EraAll100 (1)200 (2)274 (1)335 (1)336 (1)350 (1)380 (1)384 (1)450 (3)500 (2)624 (2)700 (2)731 (1)1000 (1)1246 (1)1673 (1)1925 (1)2000 (1)HonoursAllSol Invictus (1)Place of OriginAllBelgium (1)France (1)Italy (1)Poland (1)UNESCO StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (19)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 27All SaintsFeast / celebrationAscension DayFeast / celebrationCandlemasFeast / celebrationChrist the KingFeast / celebrationChristmasFeast / celebrationCorpus ChristiFeast / celebrationDies Natalis Solis InvictiFeast / celebrationDivine Mercy SundayFeast / celebrationDormition of the TheotokosFeast / celebrationEid al-AdhaFeast / celebrationEid al-FitrFeast / celebrationEpiphanyFeast / celebrationExaltation of the Holy CrossFeast / celebrationFeast of the AssumptionFeast / celebrationFeast of the Immaculate ConceptionFeast / celebrationLazarus SaturdayFeast / celebrationMaundy ThursdayFeast / celebrationMichaelmasFeast / celebrationNativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryFeast / celebrationNineteen Day FeastFeast / celebrationPentecostFeast / celebrationSlavaFeast / celebrationThe AnnunciationFeast / celebrationThe Sacred Heart of JesusFeast / celebrationThe TransfigurationFeast / celebrationTheophanyFeast / celebrationTrinity SundayFeast / celebrationSources1. 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.