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The Solemnity of the Assumption on 15 August was celebrated in the Eastern Church from the 6th century. The Western Church adopted this date as a Holy Day of Obligation to commemorate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , a reference to the belief in a real, physical elevation of her sinless soul and incorrupt body into Heaven.
Eastern Christians celebrate the Dormition of the Theotokos on August 15 (August 28, N.S. for those following the Julian Calendar), the same calendar day as the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption of Mary. "Dormition" and "Assumption" are the different names respectively in use by the Eastern and Western traditions relating to the end of ...
The three-day festival of Nemoralia corresponds to the Catholic feast days of Hippolytus of Rome (a supposed 3rd century CE martyr who shares a name with Hippolytus, a mythological figure heavily associated with Diana) on August 13, and the feast of Assumption of Mary on August 15. Scholars such as C.M. Green, James Frazer, and others have ...
August 15 / August 28 [permanent dead link ]. Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). August 28 / August 15. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow). August 15. OCA - The Lives of the Saints. The Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western Europe and the Americas (ROCOR). St.
García López is a street vendor who, like millions of Mexicans inside and outside the country, was getting ready to celebrate Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, a holiday in which ...
The holiday's origins dates back thousands of years ago, but the theme remains the same: to remember those that died before us.
Movies like "Coco" and Day of the Dead rituals invite children and adults to approach death not with sadness or fear but as a tribute to life itself, experts say.
August 15 is the 227th day of the year ... Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, ... when the National Memorial Service for War Dead is held ; References