On certain solemn feasts, such as Easter and Christmas the Office was interrupted, and the priests represented, in the presence of those assisting, the religious event being celebrated.

On solemn feasts particularly, rugs of fine quality are reserved for the predella and altar-steps.

Down to that time only two were ordinarily used, but on solemn feasts four or six.

The new day dawned for me like a solemn feast, the kind I had not experienced since childhood.

In the end, she came to understand her visions as referring to the lack of a solemn feast in honor of Christ's Body and Blood.

At their 'nocturnal gatherings, solemn feasts and barbarous meals, the bond of union is not a sacred rite but crime'.

In these visions she was reportedly told to institute a solemn feast for the Blessed Sacrament as the Body of Christ.

The chronicler Jean Froissart was a guest at the 28th anniversary celebration and recorded religious processions and solemn feasts.

The custom of rising three times for prayer could only have been in vogue, as exceptional, in certain monasteries, or for some of the more solemn feasts.

But at such a solemn feast, only the immediate family and any guests of rank equal to Aldaran's own, or higher, were seated beside the lord Aldaran.