Feast of Dedication

The Feast of Dedication, not named in the Old Testament.

The scene he chooses is Jerusalem at the Feast of Dedication, that festival which commemorated the death and resurrection of the Maccabean martyrs who had given their lives for the national ideal.

The Feast of Dedication has been proposed by Kepler and Petavius.

Some authorities think that Christmas was celebrated in December by the ancient Church because that was the date of the Feast of Dedication.

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.