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Slide 2 Feasts,Festivalsand Tradition in Slovakia Slide 3 Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ and a widely observed holiday, celebrated generally on December 24- 26 by millions of people around the world.Afeast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide, which ends after the twelfth night Christmas Slide 4 Christmas Photos Slide 5 Easter is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.Easter is the culmination of the Passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty- day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. Easter is followed by a fifty-day period called Eastertide, or the Easter Season, ending with Pentecost Sunday. Easter Slide 6 Easter Photos Slide 7 A wedding is the ceremony where people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of wedding vows by the couple, presentation of a gift and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure or leader. Special wedding garments are often worn, and the ceremony is sometimes followed by a wedding reception. Music, poetry, prayers or readings from religious texts or literature are also commonly incorporated into the ceremony. Wedding Slide 8 Wedding Photos Slide 9 All Stains Eve All Saints' is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by the Catholic Church, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Catholicism, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. All Saints' Day is the second day of Hallowmas, and begins at sunrise on the first day of November and finishes at sundown. It is the day before All Souls' Day. Slide 10 All Stains Eve Photos Slide 11 Thank you for your Attention!!