Mabon, as it is most commonly called, is the second of three harvest festivals on the Wheel of the Year, the pagan holiday calendar. Standing between August’s Lunasa and October’s Samhain ...

Writing in 725 A.D., Bede described the holidays of pagan Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and other Germanic groups, noting that the old pagan calendar combined the Roman months of December and ...

(RNS) — One of the eight sabbats, or modern pagan holidays ... one of the oldest features of the Western calendar, marked on May Day, an ancient holiday that celebrates fertility and sacred ...

May Day has origins stretching back to the Middle Ages and the holiday is one of four annual cross-quarter days in the pagan calendar, marking the midpoints between solstices and equinoxes.

However, some Orthodox churches adopted a revised Julian calendar in the early 20th ... Many religious groups did not agree with the holiday’s ties to pagan customs, and sought to renounce ...

a holiday whose origins trace back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire. Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween, a festival honoring the end of the harvest ...

In the fourth century — so the story goes — the early church fathers deliberately re-branded a popular pagan holiday as a Christian ... fourth century Roman calendar illustrates the month ...

Historians aren’t sure. The earliest possible origin story of Valentine’s Day is the pagan holiday Lupercalia. Occurring for centuries in the middle of February, the holiday celebrates fertility.