Parish festival

Parish festival or parish fair (Polish: odpust parafialny) refer to small, local festivals held by Roman Catholic churches in Poland, on a feast day of the saint patron of a given parish.

References

  • Alicja Deck-Partyka. Poland, A Unique Country & Its People. AuthorHouse. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-4678-0448-6.
  • Michael Ostling (3 November 2011). Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland. Oxford University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-19-958790-2.
  • William Isaac Thomas; Florian Znaniecki (1918). The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: Monograph of an Immigrant Group. G. Badger.
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