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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.
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 ...
A medieval manuscript fragment of Finnish origin, c. 1340 –1360, utilized by the Dominican convent at Turku, showing the liturgical calendar for the month of June. The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
The Tridentine calendar is the calendar of saints to be honoured ... Octave of St. Stephen, ... a day is added and it is of 29 days but the Feast of St. Matthias ...
26 December: Saint Stephen, the First Martyr – feast; 27 December: Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist – feast; 28 December: The Holy Innocents, Martyrs – feast; 29 December: Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop and Martyr – optional memorial; 31 December: Saint Sylvester I, Pope – optional memorial
1 The Octave Day of St John the Baptist. Confederation of Canada, 1867: Dominion Day. 2 The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth. 6 The Octave Day of St Peter and St Paul. Thomas More, Chancellor of England, Martyr 1535. 9 Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1228. 15 Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c. 862.
In this way the calendar of the Church of England has importance beyond the immediate purpose of supporting the liturgy of the English Church. It is, for example, one of the key sources of the calendar for the international daily office Oremus. [2] Holy Days are variously categorised as Principal Feasts, Festivals, Lesser Festivals, or ...
National calendars of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church are lists of saints' feast days and other liturgical celebrations, organized by calendar date, that apply to those within the nation or nations to which each calendar applies who worship according to the Roman Rite of the Latin Church.