Feast of Dedication
Britishnoun
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It was torn by anxiety as to the fate of her boy, her scholar son, unaccountably absent for the first time from the household ceremonies of the Feast of Dedication.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
It is that loud and turbulent Galilean, That came here at the Feast of Dedication, And stirred the people up to break the Law!
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Some authorities think that Christmas was celebrated in December by the ancient Church because that was the date of the Feast of Dedication.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
Feast, of Dedication, 487, 499; of Tabernacles, 400, 419; of the Passover, 112, 167; the traditional Messianic, 538.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward
A messenger from Pilate, sent on an errand to the headquarters at Scopus, brings the tidings that Christ is in Jerusalem as a visitor at the Feast of Dedication.
From An Easter Disciple The Chronicle of Quintus, the Roman Knight by Sanford, Arthur Benton
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