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New Year's Eve is a feast day honoring Pope Sylvester I in the Roman Catholic calendar (Saint Sylvester's Day). [231] The Catholic Church grants a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions, to those who recite the Te Deum in public on New Year's Eve, which is usually done prior to the celebration of Mass. [ 232 ]
Saint Sylvester's Day, also known as Silvester or the Feast of Saint Sylvester, is the day of the feast of Pope Sylvester I, a saint who served as Pope from 314 to 335. Medieval legend made him responsible for the conversion of emperor Constantine .
List of name days in France; ... (tradition) Feast day of Saint Stephen, King and Confessor ... Swedish name day list of 2001; Swithun; Saint Sylvester's Day ...
Pope Sylvester I, honored in the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches as Saint Sylvester; Saint Sylvester (disambiguation) Saint-Sylvestre-Cappel, Nord, France; Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état; Saint-Sylvestre-de-Cormeilles, Eure, France; Saint-Sylvestre-Pragoulin, Puy-de-Dôme, France; Saint-Sylvestre-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, France
December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, [1] New Year's Eve or Old Year's Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Order of Saint Sylvester; Of the papal merit orders, the highest and most infrequently awarded is the Supreme Order of Christ; the second order is the equally rare Order of the Golden Spur; the third is the Order of Pius IX; the fourth is the Order of Saint Gregory the Great; and the fifth is the Order of Saint Sylvester.
Beyond the familiar traditions like Santa Claus, a fir tree, caroling and gift-giving, a number of countries—including the U.S.—bring their own unique twists, both old and new, to the holiday.
The transition that evening to the new year is an occasion for secular festivities in many nations, and in several languages is known as "St. Sylvester Night" ("Notte di San Silvestro" in Italian, "Silvesternacht" in German, "Réveillon de la Saint-Sylvestre" in French, and "סילבסטר" in Hebrew).