Transfiguration · Eyd-e Tabdil-e Hey'at-e Masih

Culture of origin: Christian · Cultural

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The Transfiguration recalls Jesus taking Peter, James and John up a high mountain, where his face shone like the sun and Moses and Elijah appeared beside him (Matthew 17, Mark 9, Luke 9); tradition places it on Mount Tabor. Pope Callixtus III made it a universal feast on August 6 in the 15th century, to mark the lifting of the siege of Belgrade in July 1456. It is a feast in the Catholic, Anglican and other Western calendars; some Lutheran and Methodist churches mark it on the last Sunday after Epiphany instead.