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Public holiday starting with 2017 [4] May/June Rusaliile: Pentecost, Pentecost Monday: The 50th and 51st day after the Orthodox Easter. 15 August Adormirea Maicii Domnului/Sfânta Maria Mare: Dormition of the Mother of God: Also the Day of the Romanian Naval Forces since St. Mary is the patron saint of the Navy. 30 November Sfântul Andrei ...
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.Passages of Holy Scripture, saints and events for commemoration are associated with each date, as are many times special rules for fasting or feasting that correspond to the day of the week or time of year in relationship to the major feast days.
The Romanian calendar is the Gregorian, adopted in 1919. However, the traditional Romanian calendar has its own names for the months . In modern Romania and Moldova , the Gregorian calendar is exclusively used for business and government transactions and predominates in popular use as well.
2017 – The Jubilee Year of the Holy Icons and of church painters and the Commemorative Year of Patriarch Justin and of all defenders of Orthodoxy during communism; 2018 – The Jubilee Year of Unity of Faith and Nation, and the Commemorative Year of the 1918 Great Union Founders;
Gregory's calendar reform modified the Julian rule, to reduce the average length of the calendar year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days and thus corrected the Julian calendar's drift against the solar year: the Gregorian calendar gains just 0.1 day over 400 years. For any given event during the years from 1901 through 2099, its date according ...
The earliest dates for Easter in the Eastern Orthodox Church between 1875 and 2099 are April 4, 1915 and April 4, 2010 (Gregorian). Both dates are equivalent to 22 March in the Julian Calendar. The next earliest date for Orthodox Easter, March 23 in the Julian Calendar, last occurred in 1953, and will next occur in 2037. Both of these dates are ...
The tabular Byzantine calendar is used to calculate the date of Easter. It dates back to AD 284, when the new moon fell on the fifth epagemonal day of the Alexandrian calendar (28 August). Eusebius (vii.32) recounts that Anatolius of Laodicea was the first to arrange the 19-years cycle (when the new moon returns to the same Julian date) for ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. 2017 January February March April May June July August September October November December This article is about the year 2017. For the number, see 2017 (number). For other uses, see 2017 (disambiguation). Clockwise from top-left: the war against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul ; Islamic ...