While many people celebrate Halloween by dressing up to be scary, the faithful across the Philippines ... All Saints’ Day, a holy day of obligation celebrated on Nov. 1, is a Christian feast ...

Henceforth, July 29 will be celebrated as the feast day of Sts. Martha, Mary and Lazarus, the family at Bethany who were close friends of the Lord Jesus. It’s a subtle shift, as it was already ...

Called the General Roman Calendar, it is the universal schedule of holy days and feast days for the Latin rite of the Catholic church. The two saints' feast days, both of which have the ranking of ...

The Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory ... Feb. 29 is also the feast day of St. Hilary. “Lives of the Saints” by Father Alban Butler notes that he was elected pontiff while still ...

While the Pontiff chose this feast day for the ... celebration to the Church calendar. The Catholic Church commemorates its saints and martyrs on All Saints’ Day every Nov. 1.

Like many Italian-Americans, my fondest childhood memories include fragrant foods, loud social gatherings, and the Catholic saints who bring ... gave birth to this feast day.

The Catholic Church removed 93 saints from the universal calendar and revoked their feast days in 1969 when Pope Paul VI revised the canon of saints and determined that some of the names had only ...

Methodists, for example, acknowledge it as a day of giving God earnest gratitude for the lives and deaths of saints, according to Christianity.com. In countries like the Philippines, where All Sai ...

The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul is celebrated on 29 June, supposedly the day that both saints died, although years apart. Paul was a Jew whose main task was to hunt and persecute Christians.

The General Roman Calendar is the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, which denotes the dates of holy days and the feast days of saints commemorated annually. The memorial of St. Martha ...

Every year on November 1, many Roman Catholics and other Christians around the world observe All Saints Day, which honors all saints of the church deemed to have attained heaven. In the Eastern ...