Parish festival

A procession in Poland People praying in Lithuania

Short description: Annual Roman Catholic festival

A parish festival[1] or parish fair[2] or indulgence feast[3] (Lithuanian: atlaidai; Polish: odpust parafialny) is a local annual festival held by Roman Catholic churches in Poland and Lithuania on a feast day of the patron saint of a given parish. Many of the festivals have long historic traditions that date back to the Counter-Reformation in the 16–17th centuries. Almost every parish has such festival with some churches having several.[4] Participants in these festivals can receive indulgences for themselves and their dead relatives.[5] The festivals include masses, religious processions, performances by church choirs, other music performances[6] and are often accompanied by traditional craft markets.[4] The feasts reinforce local identity and foster a sense of community.[4] Some of the larger festivals, like the Great Žemaičių Kalvarija Festival, last for a week, attract thousands of people, and are major pilgrimage events.[3][4]

Major parish festivals in Lithuania:[5]

* Of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Žemaičių Kalvarija in July (see the Great Žemaičių Kalvarija Festival)
* Of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Pivašiūnai and Krekenava in August
* Of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Šiluva in September
* Of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius in November
* Of Saints Peter and Paul in Vilnius in June
* Of Our Lady of Trakai in Trakai in September

## See also

## References

1. ↑ Thomas, William Isaac; Znaniecki (1918). The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: Monograph of an Immigrant Group. G. Badger. pp. 354, 431. https://archive.org/details/polishpeasantin03znangoog.
2. ↑ Ostling, Michael (2011). Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland. Oxford University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-19-958790-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=GwYg9AItS7wC&pg=PA140.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Liutikas, Darius; Motuzas, Alfonsas (2014). "The Pilgrimage to the Hill of Crosses: Devotional Practices and Identities". in Pazos, Antón M.. Redefining Pilgrimage: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Pilgrimages. Compostela International Studies in Pilgrimage History and Culture. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. pp. 115–116. ISBN 9781409468257. https://books.google.com/books?id=HrBUBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA115.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Liutikas, D (2016). "Indulgence Feasts: Manifestation of Religious and Communal Identity". Managing and Developing Communities, Festivals and Events. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 148–164. doi:10.1057/9781137508553_11. ISBN 978-1-137-50855-3.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Zdanys, Romualdas (31 August 2018). "Atlaidai". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija. Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras. https://www.vle.lt/Straipsnis/atlaidai-104329.
6. ↑ Motūzas, Alfonsas (2011). "Atlaidai". in Savoniakaitė, Vida (in lt). Lietuvos etnologijos ir antropologijos enciklopedija. Vilnius: Lietuvos istorijos instituto leidykla leidykla. ISBN 978-9955-847-41-0. https://etalpykla.lituanistika.lt/fedora/objects/LT-LDB-0001:B.03~2011~1367176066840/datastreams/DS.001.0.01.BOOK/content.

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