feast day

Example Sentences

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Although it is not a holiday in Northern Ireland, more and more events take place each year to mark her feast day.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

The original Saint Valentine, a third-century Roman martyr, was honored in the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar until 1969, Ochoa said, when the church gave the Feb. 14 feast day instead to Sts.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

For Orthodox Christians, it is the feast day of two of their most important saints, Constantine and his mother Helen.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023

It could hardly be gathered and used to bake bread down to the said feast day unless it was first put in vessels to dry.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 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