Sentence examples for religious feast from inspiring English sources

Myitkyinā is also the site of the Kachin traditional religious feast of Manao (held each January).

Easter weekend is arguably the biggest religious feast in the Catholic calendar.

The attackers had been spurred on by fundamentalist Sunni sheikhs who objected to a religious feast that was taking place.

The Germans set up a paradise tree in their homes on December 24, the religious feast day of.

They were presented on three successive days at Corpus Christi, a religious feast day that falls in summer.

In 1916 he published his first book, characteristically titled for a religious feast day, Radunitsa ("Ritual for the Dead").

She led retreats, organized parish events and religious feasts.

Most secular holidays, however, have some relationship in terms of origin with religious feasts and festivals.

Special bannocks were once made for holidays and religious feasts, such as Beltane bannocks on the first of May and Lammas bannocks on the first day of autumn.

There, life has changed little over the centuries, focused only on the timeless cycle of seasons, harvests and droughts and marked by religious feasts and ceremonies.

The other 13 paid holidays also seem safe, since most are religious feasts, and the church here retains considerable political power.