Great Feast

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The Great Feast is one of the highest-ranking liturgical celebrations in the Byzantine Rite, marking a major event in the life of Christ, the Theotokos, or the Church.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Great Feast canonical 3
Great Feast (Byzantine Rite) 1
Great Feast of the Lord 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine Rite feast
feast
liturgical celebration
celebratedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite

Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church
commemoratesTypeOfEvent major Marian event
major ecclesial event
major salvific event
hasAlternativeName Great Feast in Eastern Christianity
surface form: Great Feast of the Church

Great Feast
surface form: Great Feast of the Lord

Great Feast of the Theotokos
hasEucharisticCelebration Divine Liturgy
hasLiturgicalColor varies by specific feast
hasLiturgicalRank Great Feast in Eastern Christianity
surface form: Great Feast of the Byzantine Rite

highest-ranking celebration
hasLiturgicalVigil often includes Great Vespers
hasPostFestivePeriod afterfeast
hasPreFestivePeriod forefeast
hasProperHymnography kontakion
stichera
troparion
hasProperServiceBook Menaion
Pentecostarion
Triodion
isPartOf Byzantine liturgical calendar
Byzantine liturgical year
marksEventInLifeOf Jesus Christ
Virgin Mary
surface form: Theotokos

Catholic Church worldwide
surface form: the Church
mayInclude leavetaking (apodosis)
usedInRite Byzantine Rite

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos liturgicalRank Great Feast
this entity surface form: Great Feast (Byzantine Rite)
Byzantine liturgical calendar hasFeastRank Great Feast
this entity surface form: Polyeleos feast
Great Feast hasAlternativeName Great Feast
this entity surface form: Great Feast of the Lord