by holidayconnections · Published 06/01/2023 · Last modified 09/13/2023
Corpus Christi is a moveable feast, celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, 60 days after Easter. Corpus Christi a.k.a. “Maundy Thursday” initiates the Paschal Triduum, the period which commemorates the passion, death, and resurrection...
by holidayconnections · Published 03/27/2023 · Last modified 11/05/2023
Abraham was born in thecity of Ur, of the Chaldees, Ur was a major Sumerian city-state located in Mesopotamia, marked today by Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq Abraham[a] is the Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic...
by holidayconnections · Published 03/20/2023 · Last modified 11/05/2023
In 381 A.D. Theodosious the Great, born in Spain and converted Christian himself called for a second Council in Constantinople to ratify the creed of the Council of Nicaea (325) as the universal norm for...
by holidayconnections · Published 03/20/2023 · Last modified 11/05/2023
“Easter Sunday” is the most important day in the Christian calendar. It celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus three days after his crucifixion, and six days after Jesus’ celebrated the Jewish Passover with his twelve disciples....