Home›Feasts›Observance Type›Veneration of a deity or holy figureBrowse ByVeneration of a deity or holy figureThis 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 MoreVeneration of a deity or holy figureSourcesComments (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.Veneration of a deity or holy figureFilter Results12 entriesTraditionAllArmenian Apostolic Church (1)Church of Cyprus (1)Church of England (1)Church of Greece (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (2)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (1)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1)Georgian Orthodox Church (1)Greek Orthodox Church (1)Lutheranism (1)Maronite Church (2)Old Believers (1)Roman Catholicism (9)Romanian Orthodox Church (1)Russian Orthodox Church (1)Serbian Orthodox Church (2)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (1)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1)Calendar SystemAllGregorian (civil solar) (9)Julian (Old Calendar) (2)Roman civil calendar (1)Date TypeAllComputed from another feast (2)Fixed date in its own calendar (10)MonthAllAugust (1)December (2)February (1)May (1)September (2)Origin EraAll274 (1)335 (1)450 (2)1423 (1)1531 (1)1673 (1)1858 (1)1917 (1)HonoursAllSol Invictus (1)Place of OriginAllFrance (2)Italy (1)Mexico (1)Portugal (1)UNESCO StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 12Dies Natalis Solis InvictiVeneration of a deity or holy figureExaltation of the Holy CrossVeneration of a deity or holy figureFeast of the AssumptionVeneration of a deity or holy figureMichaelmasVeneration of a deity or holy figureOur Lady of FatimaVeneration of a deity or holy figureOur Lady of GuadalupeVeneration of a deity or holy figureOur Lady of LourdesVeneration of a deity or holy figureOur Lady of Mount CarmelVeneration of a deity or holy figureOur Lady of SorrowsVeneration of a deity or holy figureSlavaVeneration of a deity or holy figureThe Sacred Heart of JesusVeneration of a deity or holy figureThe Triumph of OrthodoxyVeneration of a deity or holy figureSources1. 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.