What is "religious holiday"

Usage examples of "religious holiday".

CHAPTER FIVE: One night above all other nights is the most important for a Jew and that is the religious holiday of Passover.

But in some cultures it developed as a religious holiday peculiar to theocracies: the safety-valve holiday, the day of excesses, of sin without punishment, the saturnalia.

Tribble's own logic, I should get a perfectly straight answer from her on Tuesday, which according to my calendar is not a religious holiday of any kind.

They might be good for crowd control on a religious holiday, but Billy's multiplex alone was capable of taking out the whole phalanx in under a minute.

At 9:20 on Good Friday morning, traffic was sparse and it would be easy to get the mistaken impression that the city had taken this opportunity-a religious holiday observed by only about a third of its population to sleep in.

Beyerlein recognises ritual parts of the Israelite religious holiday customs in nearly all the phenomena.