Notable Days and Festivals
Notable Days and Festivals
T HAT New Year's Day is the first day of the recurring year goes without saying.
Notable Days and Festivals: Feast
Lammastide literally signified the season of First Fruits; since on Lammas Day, a term compounded out of the Anglo-Saxon hlaf, a loaf, and…
Notable Days and Festivals: Twelfth
Innocents' Day, formerly known as Childermas Day (Dec. 28th), commemorates the Massacre of the Innocents by Herod. Twelfth Day (Jan. 6th)…
Notable Days and Festivals: Easter
The word Easter bears in itself no Christian significance whatever, having been derived from Eoster, the goddess of light, or spring, in…
Notable Days and Festivals: Trinity
The Feast of Whitsuntide, which we have already discussed, also bears the name of Pentecost, from the Greek pentekoste, the fiftieth day…
Notable Days and Festivals: Cross
On Ascension Day the Church celebrates the Ascension of our Saviour; while the Feast of the Assumption similarly reminds Roman Catholics of…
Notable Days and Festivals: Valentine
St. Valentine's Day (Feb. 14th) is sacred to the memory of Bishop Valentine, a Christian martyr beheaded at Rome on this day in the year…