Sentence examples for major feast from inspiring English sources

The celebration of this event, called Easter, or the Festival of the Resurrection, is the major feast day of the church.

As the emblem of a major feast day, this version of the Nativity figured prominently, usually in its most complicated form, in the liturgical iconography of Byzantine church decoration.

Monday is the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, a major feast day for the Catholic Church, during which the pope will bestow a woolen pallium, or scarf, on all of the archbishops he has recently appointed.

The Christmas stints at Ronnie Scott's club in London became a major feast in the calendar of British jazz, and he often appeared at the Brecon jazz festival, near his home in Wales.

In London, the Christmas stints at Ronnie Scott's became a major feast in the calendar of British jazz, and he often appeared at the Brecon Jazz Festival near his home in Wales.

But when the time comes to hold a major feast of thanksgiving to the deity who granted their prayers, they go to a great deal of extra trouble and added expense to hold this feast at the more remote place of Banjari.

Polyphony was at first restricted to major feasts.

Bensonhurst celebrates two major feasts a year: the Feast of Padre Pio in June and the Feast of Santa Rosalia in late August and early September.

From this beginning developed the long tradition of liturgical drama, which, like the sequence, is centred upon the major feasts of the church year.

In 1605 and 1607 appeared the two books of the English composer William Byrd's Gradualia, a collection of polyphonic Propers for major feasts.

1170; "Great Book of Organum"), probably by Léonin, or Leoninus, the first major composer known by name, who set chant melodies for the Graduals, Alleluias, and Responsories of the masses for all major feasts.