Feast of the Assumption
Pilgrims carrying a statue of the Virgin Mary during a procession to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, marking Mary's ascension into heaven, on August, 15, 2007, in Marseille, France.
Feast
religion
Also known as: festival
Feast, day or period of time set aside to commemorate, ritually celebrate or reenact, or anticipate events or seasons—agricultural, religious, or sociocultural—that give meaning and cohesiveness to an individual and to the religious, political, or socioeconomic community. Because such days or periods generally originated in religious celebrations or ritual commemorations that usually included sacred community meals, they are called feasts or festivals. (Discover Britannica’s calendar of Catholic saint feast days.) The terms feast and festival...
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