the feast of Mary the Mother of God, her Immaculate Conception, her Assumption, the feast of Saint Joseph, the feast of the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and the feast of All Saints." ...

On August 28, the Russian Orthodox Church and other Eastern Christian Churches abiding by the old style Julian calendar celebrate the feast of Assumption of the Virgin Mary MOSCOW, August 27.

The bodily assumption of the Theotokos was ... Thus, this Feast is a feast of hope, hope in Resurrection and life eternal. Like those who gathered around the body of the Virgin Mary, we gather around ...

The Feast of Mary Help of Christians is celebrated on May 24. The tradition of this advocation goes back to 1571, when the whole of Christendom was saved by Mary Help of Christians when Catholics ...

Christians mark the feast of Assumption with especial solemnity in the garden of Gethsemane in East Jerusalem where a church was built over the Virgin Mary’s presumable burial cave. A Cross ...

The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul is ... by being beheaded outside the walls of Rome. The Assumption refers to both the body and soul of Mary being taken up into heaven at the end of her life.

The Feast also commemorates the translation or assumption into heaven of the body of the Theotokos. The Holy Scriptures tell us that when our Lord was dying on the Cross, He saw His mother and His ...