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Saint Stephen's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Stephen, is a Christian saint's day to commemorate Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protomartyr, celebrated on 26 December in Western Christianity and 27 December in Eastern Christianity.
King St Stephen has been a popular theme in Hungarian poetry since the end of the 13th century. [197] The earliest poems were religious hymns which portrayed the holy king as the apostle of the Hungarians. Secular poetry, especially poems written for his feast day, followed a similar pattern, emphasizing Stephen's role as the first king of ...
In the Armenian Apostolic and Armenian Catholic Churches, Saint Stephen's Day falls on 25 December – the day on which the feast of the Nativity of Jesus (Christmas) falls in all other churches. This is because the Armenian churches maintain the decree of Constantine, which stipulated that the Nativity and Theophany of Jesus were to be ...
His feast day in Hungary is August 20. Canonized by Pope Gregory VII in 1083 along with his son Imre (who preceded him in death in 1031, after a hunting accident) and Bishop Gerhard of Hungary , St. Stephen is the patron saint of "Hungary, kings, the death of children, masons, stonecutters, and bricklayers."
The feast of St Stephen is celebrated on 20 August. Hungarian pilgrims frequently visit the chapel. Hungarian experts took part in the ongoing restoration and archeological exploration of the church during the 20th century together with German and Italian colleagues.
Each day in the Catholic liturgical calendar has a rank. The five basic ranks for the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, in descending order of importance, are as follows: Solemnity — the highest ranking type of feast day. It commemorates an event in the life of Jesus or Mary, or celebrates a Saint important to the whole Church or the local ...
20 August: Saint Stephen of Hungary – Solemnity; 5 September: Saint Teresa of Calcutta, virgin – Optional Memorial; 7 September: Saints Marko Krizin, Melichar Grodecki and Stephen Pongrác, priests and martyrs – Feast; 24 September: Saint Gerard, bishop and martyr– Feast; 8 October: Our Lady of Hungary – Solemnity
St. Stephen Parish and St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish were to be merged into St. Monica Parish at 413 East 79th Street. [6] A High Mass for the Feast of St. Stephen took place on August 23, 2015, the last major event for the parish. The final Mass was held on August 30. [7] After that, the Hungarian congregation moved to the nearby Church of ...