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Holidays based on the date of Easter
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The list Holidays based on the date of Easter includes
Fastnacht (Pennsylvania Dutch), Clean Monday, Azores Day, Fast of Nineveh and Aberri Eguna.
The list consists of 42 members
and 6 sublists.
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All Souls' Day
feast day in some Christian denominations
Overview: All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by Christians on 2 November. In Western Christianity ...
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Mardi Gras
Holiday on the day before Ash Wednesday
Overview: Mardi Gras (also known as Shrove Tuesday) is the final day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide or Fastelavn); it thus falls on the day before the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French ... 0
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Quinquagesima
Sunday before the beginning of Lent
Overview: Quinquagesima, in the Western Christian Churches, is the last pre-Lenten Sunday, being the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide). It is also called Quin ... 0
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Clean Monday
the first day of Great Lent throughout Eastern Christianity
Overview: Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρά Δευτέρα, Kathara Deftera), also known as Pure Monday, Green Monday or simply Monday of Lent is the first day of Great Lent throughout Eastern Christianity and is a moveable ... 0
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5.Overview: Azores Day (Portuguese: Dia dos Açores) is a regional holiday in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It commemorates the establishment of Azorean political autonomy in the Portuguese Constitution ... 0
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Fast of Nineveh
three-day fast in Syriac Christianity
Overview: In Syriac Christianity, the Fast of Nineveh (Classical Syriac: ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܝ̈ܐ Bā'ūṯā ḏ-Ninwāyē, literally "Petition of the Ninevites") is a three-day fast starting the third Monday before Clean Monday ... 0
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Radonitsa
commemoration of the departed within the Russian Orthodox Church (East and South Slavs)
Overview: Radonitsa (Russian: Ра́доница, Belarusian: Ра́даўніца "Day of Rejoicing"), also spelled Radunitsa, Radonica, or Radunica, in the Russian Orthodox Church is a commemoration of the departed observed on ... 0
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Sexagesima
second Sunday before Ash Wednesday in the pre-1970 Roman Rite liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church
Overview: Sexagesima or, in full, Sexagesima Sunday, is the name for the second Sunday before Ash Wednesday in the pre-1970 Roman Rite liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, and also in that of some Protestant ... 0
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Mothering Sunday
celebration of mothers and maternal metaphors on the Fourth Sunday in LentOverview: Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Comm ... 0
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Whit Monday
holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost
Overview: Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday, also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit, is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian liturgical calendar. It is moveable because ... 0
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Whitsun
name used in the UK and Ireland for the Christian festival of Pentecost
Overview: Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used in Britain, and other countries among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian holy day of Pentecost. It falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter ... 0
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12.Overview: The Commemoration of the Passion of Christ was a feast of the Roman Catholic Church, listed in the Roman Missal up to 1962 as observed in some places, and kept on the Tuesday after Sexagesima. Its object ... 0
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Baby jumping
Spanish festival
Overview: Baby jumping (Spanish: El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish festival dating back to 1620. It takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Castrillo de Murcia, a village in ... 0
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People's Sunday
first Sunday of Lent at Żabbar, MaltaOverview: The People's Sunday celebrations are held on Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday of Lent at Żabbar, Malta, popularly known as Ħadd in-Nies, are living recollections of the centuries-old devotion to Our ... 0
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Feast of the Sacred Heart
Solemnity in the Catholic Church
Overview: The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a solemnity in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church. According to the General Roman Calendar since 1969, it is formally known as the Solemnity ... 0
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Pentecost
Christian holiday commemorating the Holy Spirit's descent upon the Apostles
Overview: Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day (50th day when inclusive counting is used) after Easter Day. It commemorates the descent ... 0
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Thursday of the Dead
Feast day in the Levant
Overview: Thursday of the Dead (Arabic: خميس الأموات, Khamis al-Amwat), also known as Thursday of the Secrets (Arabic: خميس الأسرار, Khamis al-Asrar) or Thursday of the Eggs, is a feast day shared by Christians ... 0
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Vardavar
Armenian water festival usually held at the month of July
Overview: Vardavar or Vartavar (Armenian: Վարդավառ, Homshetsi: Vartevor or Behur) is a festival in Armenia where people drench each other with water. 0
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Maslenitsa
Slavic folk and Christian holiday
Overview: Maslenitsa (Belarusian: Масленіца; Russian: Мaсленица Rusyn: Пущаня; Ukrainian: Масниця), also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk ... 0
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Nabi Musa
Local Development Committee in Jericho, State of Israel
Overview: Nabi Musa (Arabic: ٱلنَّبِي مُوْسَى, An-Nabī Mūsā, 'the Prophet Moses', also transliterated as Nebi Musa) is primarily a Muslim holy site near Jericho in Palestine, where a local Muslim tradition places ... 0
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