Sentence examples for whose feast from inspiring English sources

St George, whose feast day we celebrated yesterday, is no exception.

The court ordered them to call the boy Gregorio, after the saint on whose feast day he was born.

The island was sighted on Nov. 11, 1493, by Christopher Columbus, who named it in honour of St. Martin of Tours, whose feast day it was.

He called the spot Angra de São Brás (Bay of St. Blaise, whose feast day it was) or the Bay of Cowherds, from the people he found there.

Santa Claus was a clever Yankee repackaging of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, whose feast day was Dec. 6.

For centuries, many Christians associated it with the martyred St. Lawrence, whose feast day falls on Aug. 10, so they called the display "the tears of St. Lawrence".

And, of course, at the centre of the work, we have the deathless Trimalchio, whose famous feast remains, and always will remain, the locus classicus of tasteless ostentation.

Dan Kim, whose Alaskan Feast supplies the best fish stall in town, Manhattan's Rosedale market, explains: "You know what happens with the first five Copper salmon they catch?

And on March 18, the acting governor was among the scores of the powerful and influential who felt almost compelled to gather at the North Ward Center for Mr. Adubato's annual commemoration of St. Patrick, the patron of the Irish, and St. Joseph, whose March 19 feast day is celebrated in many Italian households.

Bede explains that the lunar month of Eosturmonath "was once called after a goddess... named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated".

Shipwrecked on a South Sea island, they have to dodge sharks and pirates, but most scarily encounter cannibals, whose grim feasting they witness in horror.