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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.
St. Stephen's Basilica, Jerusalem, in French Saint-Étienne, at the traditional place of St Stephen's martyrdom; modern church over ruins of Byzantine 5th-century predecessor St. Stephan's Gate , the Christian name of one of the city gates of the Old City of Jerusalem , also known as the " Lions' Gate ".
Print/export Download as PDF; ... Feast day of Saint Stephen, King and Confessor; Saint Stephen's Day; Name days in Sweden; Swedish name day list of 2001;
22 February: The Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle – feast; 23 February: Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr – memorial; 27 February: Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church – optional memorial a ^a On 25 January 2021, Pope Francis inscribed Saint Gregory of Narek, Abbot and Doctor of the Church, in the General Roman Calendar ...
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.
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Several octaves overlapped, so that, for instance, on 29 December the prayer of the saint of the day, Saint Thomas Becket, was followed by the prayers of Christmas Day, of Saint Stephen, of Saint John the Evangelist and of the Holy Innocents. The situation remained such until the reform of Pope Pius X. [24]
"St. Stephen and Herod" (Roud 3963, Child 22) is a traditional English Christmas carol. [1] It depicts the martyrdom of Saint Stephen as occurring, with wild anachronism , under Herod the Great , and claims that that was the reason for St. Stephen's Day being the day after Christmas.