Epiphany (holiday) 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar made the date to some extent variable, stating: "The Epiphany of the Lord is celebrated on 6 January, unless, where it is not observed as a holy day of obligation, it has been assigned to the Sunday occurring between 2 and 8 January." It also made the Feast of the Epiphany part of Christmas Time, which it defined as extending from the First Vespers of Christmas (the evening of December 24) up to and including the Sunday after Epiphany (the Sunday after January 6). Prior to 1976, Anglican churches also observed an eight-day
Epiphany (literature) the Greek word 'epiphany' that means the manifestation of a deity or a sudden realisation. The term epiphany as a literary device has become popular among English speakers. Epiphany as a word is derived from the ancient Greek word "epiphaneia" "manifestation, striking appearance, festival held in commemoration of the appearance of a god at some particular place." It also has religious connotations in the early fourteenth century meaning "festival of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles" and in the New Testament meaning an "advent manifestation of Christ." Christians denoted from epiphany the meaning of a "visible manifestation of a