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Christmas Eve (Christianity) and its related observances: Feast of the Seven Fishes (Italian Americans)

Feast of the Seven Fishes

Italian-American Christmas Eve celebration

The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. Christmas Eve is a vigil or fasting day, and the abundance of seafood reflects the observance of abstinence from meat until the feast of Christmas Day itself.
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Italian Americans

American citizens of Italian descent

Italian Americans are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeast and industrial Midwestern metropolitan areas, with significant communities also residing in many other major U.S. metropolitan…
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