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The Feast of the Assumption of Mary was retained by the Lutheran Church after the Reformation. [48] Evangelical Lutheran Worship designates August 15 as a lesser festival named "Mary, Mother of Our Lord" while the current Lutheran Service Book formally calls it "St. Mary, Mother of our Lord". [48]
In Ain Ebel, a southern Lebanese village near the Israeli border, more than a thousand people gathered for a solemn procession to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on Aug. 15. The ...
During the early medieval period, the Roman Catholic Church moved the date of Ferragosto from the 1st to 15 August – the feast day of the Assumption of Mary – so as to impose a Christian ideology onto the pre-existing celebration. [5]
The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Dormition not on a fixed date, but on the Sunday nearest 15 August. In Western Churches the corresponding feast is known as the Assumption of Mary, with the exception of the Scottish Episcopal Church, which has traditionally celebrated the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15.
In the Syriac Orthodox rite St. Mary is commemorated on the following 8 Major feast days: January 15 Virgin Mary of the Sowing; March 25 Annunciation of the Virgin Mary; May 15 Feast of the Virgin Mary of the Harvest; August 15 Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin Mary; September 8 Nativity of the Virgin Mary; December 26 Glorification of the ...
Saint Mary the Virgin, or the "Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary" – (15 August) Various names are used for the observance of 15 August on official Anglican liturgical calendars, but Anglo-Catholics will generally prefer to follow the broader Catholic tradition of calling this the feast of the Assumption.
August 15 is Assumption Day, Catholic celebration of Virgin Mary, patron saint of the Acadians. During this period of time, a good number of people among the Acadian leaders were traditionalists wishing for the conservation of the values and customs of pre-revolutionary France.
It is the site of an annual pilgrimage of Roman Catholics (primarily from the Middle East) to mark the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, celebrated 15 August of every year. The basilica is designated as a shrine to Our Lady of Consolation.