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Category: Christianity
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The Christian category includes events that focus on the Christian faith and culture or draw from it. Some events have their roots in Christianity but are not religious.
Christian Events
Fasching Sunday (DE, AT): February 27
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Part of the Lutheran and Catholic traditions heading into the 40 days of penance and fasting prior to Easter, Fasching Sunday is the final Sunday service prior. It can also be referred to as Tulip Sunday....
January
Meatfare Sunday (C): February 27
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Meatfare Sunday is the final day leading up to Lent that Orthodox Christians can eat meat. From this point until Easter, fish may be eaten. Beef, Pork, Lamb, and poultry cannot.
January
Bun Day (IS): February 28
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Bun Day in Iceland is tied to the Christian observance of Lent and occurs on Shrove Monday prior to Ash Wednesday. Children wake up in the morning and get their parents out of bed. Over the previous few d...
January
Bursting Day (IS): March 1
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Bursting Day in Iceland is tied to the Christian observance of Lent and occurs on Shrove Tuesday prior to Ash Wednesday. It is tradition to eat foods that are not allowed during Lent including salted lamb...
January
Fat Tuesday (C): March 1
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Fat Tuesday is the nickname given to Shrove Tuesday, a day of repentance in the Christian faith (1 Corinthians 9:27) marking the end of Epiphany. It is part of the Carnaval celebration, leading up to Lent...
January
Paczki Day: March 1
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Pronounced 'Poonch-kee', Paczki is a Polish pastry that is traditionally eaten prior to the beginning of Lent. Usually round, the fried dough pastry is filled with fruit and dusted in sugar.
January
Pancake Day (C)(AU/UK/CA): March 1
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Pancake Day (also called Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday) is the last great gasp of gluttony prior to the beginning of the 40-day period of Lent in the Christian calendar. The custom during Lent is to giv...
January
Saint David's Day (UK)(589 AD): March 1
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Shrove Tuesday (C): March 1
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Shrovetide Pancake Race (UK/US-KS): March...
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Talk about tradition, the Shrovetide Pancake Race has been held nearly annually since 1445 AD! This race is only open to women sixteen years of age, who dress in traditional housewife attire (dress, apro...
January
Ash Wednesday (C): March 2
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Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent (the 40 days leading up to Easter). In ancient times it was believed that throwing ash over your head indicated to God that you were repenting (chang...
January
Lent (C): March 2 - April 14
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Holy Experiment Day (1681): March 4
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Holy Experiment Day marks an auspicious day in American History. On March 4, 1681, William Penn received a charter from King Charles II of England granting Penn specifically, and the Quakers by default,...
January
Saint Piran's Day (UK): March 5
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Saint Piran's Day in the United Kingdom is celebrated every year on March 5th as the National Day of Cornwall. Saint Piran is famed for the discovery of tin. Origins of this holiday date back to the lat...
January
Green (Clean) Monday (C): March 7
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Also known as Clean Monday, Green Monday is the first Monday of Lent in the Orthodox Christian faith. It's a time to clean the house for the Lent season.
January
Lent, Orthodox (C): March 9 - April 23
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The Christian season of Lent is a religious observance that begins 40 days (the number of days Jesus fasted in the desert and was tempted by the devil) on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Maundy Thursday....
January
Salvation Army Day (1880): March 10
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On the day of the Salvation Army, Americans celebrate its creation in the in 1880. The Salvation Army is a Christian based international charitable organization, structured as a quasi-military. The Salvat...
January
National Day (VA)(2013): March 13
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Even the smallest nation of the world, The Holy See, (aka The Vatican) has a national day and a national holiday. National Day in the Holy See always falls on the anniversary of the current Pope's electio...
January
Saint Patrick's Day (460 AD): March 17
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Feast of the Annunciation (C): March 25
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A national holiday in Lebanon since 2010, the Feast of the Annunciation celebrates the Christian and Islamic belief that the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary and told her she was carrying the...
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