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Leah Bergstein created a choreography for a sheep-shearing festival but it was held only twice. The possibility exists, however, that Lag BaOmer , a joyful celebration of obscure origin and forgotten meaning, observed since Geonic times in mid-spring and in which highly religious Jews give their three-year-old boys their first haircut, could ...
Advent, the other pivotal season on the calendar, comes exactly four Sundays before the start of Christmas (if Christmas falls on a Sunday, that day does not count), or the Sunday closest to St. Andrew's Day (November 30). [3] Like the other Western Church calendars, the first Sunday of Advent is also the first day of the liturgical year. [4]
The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, [1] [2] consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of scripture are to be read.
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šāloš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles', 'tents ...
Walpurgis Night (/ v æ l ˈ p ʊər ɡ ɪ s, v ɑː l-,-ˈ p ɜːr-/), [3] [4] an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht [zaŋkt valˈpʊʁɡɪsˌnaxt]), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve) and Walpurgisnacht, is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is ...
The English word Lent is a shortened form of the Old English word lencten, meaning "spring season", as its Dutch language cognate lente (Old Dutch lentin) [36] still does today. A dated term in German , Lenz ( Old High German lenzo ), is also related.
Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.
The last time Orthodox Easter has fallen on Julian April 24, the second latest date, is 1793, which is equivalent to May 5, 1793 in the Gregorian Calendar. The next time Orthodox Easter will fall on April 24 in the Julian Calendar is 2051, which is equivalent to May 7, 2051 in the Julian Calendar. Until this date, Orthodox Easter has never ...