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On Saint Patrick's Day began as a "feast day" in honor of the anniversary of the day he died. To honor him, Christians could put aside their Lenten restrictions on food and alcohol consumption on this day, which is why excessive drinking has become so permanently linked to the celebration.

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In the early 1600s, St. Patrick's Day became a Christian day of feast. It is recognized by the Anglican, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Lutheran churches.

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1. In the Christian Church, December 26th is also the Feast of St. Stephen. This day commemorates St. Stephen for his work in the church, mostly caring for the poor and for widows. He was eventually stoned to death by an angry mob. He is remembered for begging God not to punish his killers as he was being stoned to death.

2. Aug 26th is the Orthodox Christian feast day of Barlaam and Josaphat (aka Siddhartha Gautama, aka the BUDDHA). The story was written down and translated from Manichaean sources into greek by a Georgian monk telling of a Indian prince's conversion to Christianity.

3. A medieval, Christian feast was observed on January 14 to celebrate the Flight to Egypt known as Festum Asinorum or Feast of the Ass.

4. The Feast of the Ass, a medieval Christian feast observed on January 14 celebrating the donkey-related stories in the Bible, particularly the Flight into Egypt.

5. The "hallow" in Halloween refers to saints. Halloween is a contraction of "Hallows' Even" or "Hallows' Evening" and is the eve of Western Christian feast of All Hallow's Day.

6. Valentine's days roots are in the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated annually on February 15. Pope Gelasius I recast this pagan festival as a Christian feast day circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day.

7. In ancient Scandinavia, horses were seen as working creatures, a sign of status, and symbolically in Norse religion. They were slaughtered as sacrifice and eaten by people at the feasts. When Nordic countries were Christianized, eating horse was seen as a sign of paganism and prohibited.