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The feast day of a saint is generally the date of his or her death. | The feast day of a saint is generally the date of his or her death. | ||
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*[[Great Feasts]] | *[[Great Feasts]] | ||
*[[Classification of Feasts]] | *[[Classification of Feasts]] | ||
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*[[Name day]] | *[[Name day]] | ||
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===Daily Saints and Feasts=== | ===Daily Saints and Feasts=== | ||
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*[http://www.oca.org/FSlives.asp The Lives of the Saints] ([[OCA]]) | *[http://www.oca.org/FSlives.asp The Lives of the Saints] ([[OCA]]) | ||
*[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/calendar.asp Orthodox Calendar] and [http://goarch.org/en/chapel/search.asp Search for Saints and Feasts] ([[GOARCH]]) | *[http://goarch.org/en/chapel/calendar.asp Orthodox Calendar] and [http://goarch.org/en/chapel/search.asp Search for Saints and Feasts] ([[GOARCH]]) | ||
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*[http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/ss-index.htm Index of Saints] ([[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] - Church of Saint Patrick, Washington, DC) | *[http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/ss-index.htm Index of Saints] ([[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] - Church of Saint Patrick, Washington, DC) | ||
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[[Category:Feasts]] | [[Category:Feasts]] | ||
[[Category:Liturgics]] | [[Category:Liturgics]] | ||
[[Category:Saints]] | [[Category:Saints]] | ||
Revision as of 15:14, March 28, 2007
A feast day (or festival) is the date a saint, a holy event, or a holy object is commemorated in the liturgical life of the Orthodox Church. A feast day is primarily celebrated through the hymnography of the Church's divine services appointed to be celebrated on such day.
The feast day of a saint is generally the date of his or her death.
See also
External links
Daily Saints and Feasts
- The Lives of the Saints (OCA)
- Orthodox Calendar and Search for Saints and Feasts (GOARCH)
- Synaxarion (AOCA)
- Saint of the Day (AOCA - Saint George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, Washington, DC)
- Complete List of Saints (ROCOR - Protection of the Mother of God Church, Rochester, New York)
- Typikon 2005 (.pdf) (Holy Synod in Resistance - Swedish Exarchate of the True (Old Calendar) Orthodox Church of Greece)
- The Prologue from Ochrid (Serbian Orthodox Church - Diocese of Western America)
- Lives of the Saints (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia)
- God is Wonderful in His Saints - John Brady
- Index of Saints (Roman Catholic - Church of Saint Patrick, Washington, DC)
