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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.
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 table includes the feast date, ... 25 Christmas Day; 26 †Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr; ... Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America
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 ".
1 All Saints; 2 The Commemoration of All Souls; 3 The Martyrs and Confessors of our Time; 3 Winifred (7th century), Abbess; 4 The Saints and Martyrs of the Anglican Communion; 5 Cybi (6th century), Abbot; 6 Illtud (5th century), Abbot; 7 Richard Davies (1581), Bishop and Translator; 8 The Saints of Wales; 10 Leo (461), Bishop and Doctor; 11 ...
Calendar of saints; ... Feast day of Saint Stephen, King and Confessor; Saint Stephen's Day; Name days in Sweden; Swedish name day list of 2001; Swithun;
[a] The Apology of the Augsburg Confession states that the remembrance of the saints has three parts: thanksgiving to God, the strengthening our faith, and the imitation of the saints' holy living. [b] [3] As a result, the Lutheran reformers retained a robust calendar of saints to be commemorated throughout the year.
Institutional and societal 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 members of individual institutes of consecrated life [a] and societies of apostolic life of pontifical right that worship according to the Roman Rite of the Latin Church.