feast day
Example Sentences
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He even shouted out Our Lady of Guadalupe’s feast day, commending the “steadfast devotion to Mary that originated in the heart of Mexico.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
The Christian feast day of Epiphany, when observers celebrate the visit to Jesus by the Magi - commonly known as the Three Kings, or Wise Men - is widely celebrated in Spain.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
Every 11th of November, on the feast day of its patron saint, San Martín erupts in a wild spectacle that has occurred almost uninterrupted since 1735.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024
And in Bolivia, pet owners marked the feast day of Saint Roch, the patron saint of dogs.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2023
This Sunday was to be a feast day for everyone, but more especially for the twenty-four elders, who were, that day, to be gloriously banqueted at the saints’ expense and labor.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
