THE genuine music festival is an immovable feast where site and sound are inextricable.

The holidays of his soul were immovable feasts.

On Sundays, the extended family met for lunch - an interminable "immovable feast" of carefully prepared Armenian dishes.

The Christian Church, due to its complicated system of movable and immovable feasts, has long been concerned with the regulation and measurement of time.

As for the immovable feasts, Christmas and Epiphany, which were unknown or seemed unimportant to Tertullian, were celebrated already with the greatest solemnity in the early 5th century.

This calendar system, when combined with major church festivals and movable and immovable feasts, constructs a very human and personalised yet often localized way of organizing the year and identifying dates.

Festivals of local Christian martyrs seem to have taken precedence over what are now regarded as the greatest feasts of the Church, and their anniversaries were celebrated with great solemnity long before the immovable feasts were introduced.