feast day
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a day designated for feasting
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Access to mesa-top pueblo by guided tour only (available from visitors' center), except on Sept 2nd (feast day).
According to Geoffrey's narrative, Cordelia had buried her father beneath the river in a chamber dedicated to Janus and that his feast day was an annual celebration.
A feast day will be designated, but its observance is normally restricted to the Blessed's home diocese, to certain locations associated with him or her, and/or to the churches or houses of the blessed's religious order, if they belonged to one.
At St. Martin's eve and on the feast day, people ate and drank very heartily for a last time before they started to fast.
Calendarium Romanum (1969), p. 98 Mary of Bethany's feast day and that of her brother Lazarus is now on 29 July, the memorial of their sister Martha.
A surviving homily from St. Augustine on Cyprian's feast day indicates that his cult was fairly widespread throughout Africa by the fourth century.