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The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ[ 1] (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday[ 2][ 3]) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. It is one of the ecumenical (shared by multiple denominations) feasts of Christian churches ...
The earliest evidence for a Feast of the Annunciation or Incarnation is from the fifth century. [2] [5] [6] The first certain mentions of the feast are in a canon, of the Council of Toledo in 656, where it was described as celebrated throughout the Church, and in another of the Council of Constantinople "in Trullo" in 692, which forbade the celebration of any festivals during Lent, excepting ...
The Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, Kalenda Proclamation, or Christmas Proclamation, is a chant sung before the Midnight Mass for Christmas in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. The long text is a timeline, in which each verse represents the years from an historical event, either secular or religious, until birth of Jesus Christ, and ...
Epiphany (holiday) Epiphany ( / əˈpɪfəni / ə-PIF-ə-nee ), or Eid al-Ghitas ( Arabic: عيد الغِطاس ), [ 4] also known as "Theophany" in Eastern Christian tradition, [ 5] is a Christian feast day commemorating the visit of the Magi, the baptism of Jesus, and the wedding at Cana. [ 6]
The Day of the Lord. The End of the World, also known as The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin. " The Day of the LORD” is a biblical term and theme used in both the Hebrew Bible ( יֹום יְהוָה Yom Adonai) and the New Testament ( ἡμέρα κυρίου, hēmera Kyriou ), as in "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon ...
December 19 is the 353rd day of the year ... Mitchell Feigenbaum, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2019) 1944 ... Lord of Milan (b. 1319) 1558 – ...
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord, Great and Holy Friday (also Holy and Great Friday). [1] [2]
COVID-19 pandemic. This article documents the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in 2019, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The first human cases of COVID-19 known to have been identified were in Wuhan, Hubei, China, in December 2019, which marked the beginning of the ...