[KarinG1]

''Christians, meanwhile, will be marking the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi''
That sentence should probably start with the word 'Catholics' rather than 'Christians'. While I personally bear no ill will against Catholics, or the practitioners of any other religion simply because they practice it (unless they feel it is their religious duty to murder me), Protestants don't celebrate holidays involving saints. At least to my knowledge none of them do, and I've been one all of my life.

[metmom]

I was raised Catholic and don't ever remember celebrating it much less hearing about it.

[Verginius Rufus]

The university calendar in England was traditionally set up with reference to major saints' feastdays such as St. Michael (Sept. 29, Michaelmas). I don't know if the Church of England still observes the feasts but they might.

In the early 1990s one October 4 CNN ran a segment on a Franciscan priest in San Francisco blessing some animals, as if it might be of interest to a wider audience.

[dangus]

Orthodox and Episcopalians do.