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  2. Blessing of the Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The annual Blessing of the Fleet & Seafood Festival in Mount Pleasant, SC pays tribute to local shrimping and fishing industry, offering a boat parade, live music, craft show and many free activities with the picturesque Ravenel Bridge and Charleston Harbor for a backdrop! The festival is held on the last Sunday in April every year.

  3. Feast of the Seven Fishes - Wikipedia

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    The Feast of the Seven Fishes (Italian: Festa dei sette pesci) is an Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. [1] [2] Christmas Eve is a vigil or fasting day, and the abundance of seafood reflects the observance of abstinence from meat until the feast of Christmas Day itself.

  4. List of foods with religious symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Many religions have a particular 'cuisine' or tradition of cookery, associated with their culture (see, for example, List of Jewish cuisine dishes). This list is not intended for foods which are merely part of the cultural heritage of a religious body, but specifically those foods that bear religious symbolism in the way they are made, or the ...

  5. Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Fish and other designated seafood are traditionally eaten by Catholics on Fridays due to the prohibition on eating meat on that day. Contemporary practice varies by country and area. The Catholic Church historically observes the disciplines of fasting and abstinence (from meat) at various times each year. For Catholics, fasting is the reduction ...

  6. Christian dietary laws - Wikipedia

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    [13] In Judaism, Jews are forbidden from consuming (amongst other things) any mammals except those with cloven hooves that chew their cud, [14] shellfish (including all invertebrate seafood) and unscaled or finless fish, [14] blood, [15] food offered to idols, [16] or the meat of animals not killed humanely with a sharp knife by a trained ...

  7. Latin Catholics of Malabar - Wikipedia

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    Pork, Beef, Vinegar, Garlic, Paprika, Mint, Black Pepper, Thyme and Rosemary are all important aspects of the Keralite Latin Catholic cuisine. Spices like Red Chilli, Turmeric and Coriander lack in the Latin Catholic cuisine and are replaced by Black Pepper due to the Portuguese influence. Consumption of bread and other baked goods are also ...

  8. Human uses of fish - Wikipedia

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    Academic study of fish in culture is called ethnoichthyology. It is an interdisciplinary field that examines human knowledge of fish, the uses of fish, and the importance of fish in different human societies. It draws on knowledge from many different areas including ichthyology, economics, oceanography, and marine botany. [54]

  9. Folk Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    Some forms of folk Catholic practices are based on syncretism with non-Christian or otherwise non-Catholic beliefs or religions. Some of these folk Catholic forms have come to be identified as separate religions, as is the case with Caribbean and Brazilian syncretism between Catholicism and West African religions, which include Haitian Vodou, Cuban Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé.