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A patronal feast or patronal festival [a] [3] (Spanish: fiesta patronal; Catalan: festa patronal; Portuguese: festa patronal; Italian: festa patronale; French: fête patronale) is a yearly celebration dedicated – in countries influenced by Christianity – to the 'heavenly advocate' or 'patron' of the location holding the festival, who is a saint or virgin.
FetLife was launched on January 3, 2008, by John Kopanas (also known by his username John Baku), a software engineer in Montreal, Quebec. [2] [3] [4] Frustrated by attempts to find women who had the same sexual interests as he did, Baku created a website in 2007 called "FriendsWithFetishes".
The English word fête, pronounced / ˈ f eɪ t / FAYT or / ˈ f ɛ t / FET, is borrowed from the Mediaeval Latin festus via the French fête, meaning "holiday" or "party". [4] The 12th-century Middle English root fest-is shared with feast, festive, festal and festival, festoon, the Spanish fiesta, Portuguese festa, etc. and the proper name Festus.
An account of the banquet appears in the Liber Notarum of Johann Burchard, the Protonotary Apostolic and Master of Ceremonies. This diary, a primary source on the life of Alexander VI, was preserved in the Vatican Secret Archive; it became available to researchers in the mid-19th century when Pope Leo XIII opened the archive, although Leo expressed specific reluctance to allow general access ...
Kermesse by Marten van Cleve, c. 1591–1600. Kermesse, or kermis, or kirmess, is an outdoor fair or festival usually organized for charitable purposes. [1] [2] The term was derived from 'kerk' and 'mis' in the original Dutch language term, and was borrowed in English, French, Spanish and many other languages.
Antoine Watteau, Embarkation for Cythera, 1717 Fête galante (French pronunciation: [fɛːt ɡalɑ̃t]) (courtship party) is a category of painting specially created by the French Academy in 1717 to describe Antoine Watteau's (1684–1721) variations on the theme of the fête champêtre, which featured figures in ball dress or masquerade costumes disporting themselves amorously in parkland ...
Sean Penn and his girlfriend, model Valeria Nicov, have brought their relationship to the spotlight.. The Daddio actor, 64, walked the red carpet with Nicov, 30, on Nov. 30, a few months after ...
The annual Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is a haute couture festival celebrating the global fashion industry. A country festival in Swabia Procession in Honor of Isis, a 1903 depiction of the Egyptian Navigium Isidis festival by Frederick Arthur Bridgman