Home›Observances›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 marks without ranking them as feasts or festivals - commemorations of a teacher or a martyr, preparatory and penitential seasons, monthly and fortnightly observances, days of remembrance for the dead. The grouping is residual: it collects what the calendar sets apart but does not celebrate. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHolidays & Festivals 1Learn MoreThe Observances This group holds observances, the appointed days and periods a tradition sets aside for religious attention, whether in commemoration, devotion or discipline, spanning the range of solemn and reflective occasions of the sacred year. The browser will find the observances the atlas gathers from across the traditions. The entries describe each observance's occasion and customs, noting the tradition and the time in the calendar it marks.Commemoration of a person or eventFilter Results17 entriesTraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (2)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (2)Anglican Communion (2)Anglicanism (2)Armenian Apostolic Church (1)Assyrian Church of the East (1)Calvinism (Reformed) (1)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (2)Church of Cyprus (3)Church of England (2)Church of Greece (3)Church of Ireland (2)Church of Sweden (2)Coptic Orthodoxy (2)Dutch Reformed Church (1)Eastern Orthodoxy (3)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (3)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (2)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (2)Georgian Orthodox Church (3)Global Methodist Church (2)Greek Orthodox Church (3)Khalsa (2)Lutheranism (3)Mahayana (1)Maronite Church (2)Methodism (2)Moravian Church (2)Nirmala (1)Old Believers (3)Oriental Orthodoxy (3)Presbyterianism (1)Protestantism (1)Roman Catholicism (2)Romanian Orthodox Church (3)Russian Orthodox Church (3)Serbian Orthodox Church (3)The Episcopal Church (2)The United Methodist Church (2)Theravada (2)Udasi (1)Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (3)Ukrainian Orthodox Church (3)Vajrayana (1)Zen (1)Calendar SystemAllBadi (Bahai) (1)Bikrami / Vikrami (Punjabi lunisolar) (2)Buddhist lunisolar (South and Southeast Asian) (2)Gregorian (civil solar) (7)Islamic Hijri (lunar) (2)Julian (Old Calendar) (1)Nanakshahi (Sikh tropical solar, 2003) (1)Date TypeAllComputed from another feast (3)Fixed date in its own calendar (12)Fixed weekday of a month or season (1)MonthAllJuly (1)October (1)Origin EraAll300 BCE (1)380 (2)700 (1)843 (1)1000 (1)1469 (1)1517 (1)1666 (1)1705 (1)1851 (1)Place of OriginAllGreece (1)United States (2)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (14)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 17Asalha PujaCommemoration of a person or eventBodhi DayCommemoration of a person or eventDarwin DayCommemoration of a person or eventDay of the CovenantCommemoration of a person or eventGuru Gobind Singh GurpurabCommemoration of a person or eventGuru Nanak GurpurabCommemoration of a person or eventHoly WeekCommemoration of a person or eventIsra and Mi'rajCommemoration of a person or eventMagha PujaCommemoration of a person or eventMaghiCommemoration of a person or eventMawlidCommemoration of a person or eventNational Day of ReasonCommemoration of a person or eventPalm SundayCommemoration of a person or eventParinirvana DayCommemoration of a person or eventPrometheiaCommemoration of a person or eventReformation DayCommemoration of a person or eventSunday of OrthodoxyCommemoration of a person or eventSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 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.