christian holy day
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is a type of: holy day, religious holiday - a day specified for religious observancesubtypes:
- quarter day - a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due
- holy day of obligation - a day when Catholics must attend Mass and refrain from servile work, and Episcopalians must take Communion
- january 20, saint agnes's eve - a Christian holy day
- easter day, easter sunday - the day (in March or April) on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- palm sunday - Sunday before Easter
- passion sunday - second Sunday before Easter
- good friday - Friday before Easter
- low sunday - the Sunday following Easter
- holy saturday - the Saturday before Easter; the last day of Lent
- holy innocents' day, innocents' day - December 28, commemorating Herod's slaughter of the children of Bethlehem
- septuagesima, septuagesima sunday - the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter)
- quinquagesima, quinquagesima sunday - the Sunday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent)
- quadragesima, quadrigesima sunday - the first Sunday in Lent
- trinity sunday - eighth Sunday after Easter
- rogation day - one of the three days before Ascension Day; observed by some Christians as days of supplication
- holy thursday, maundy thursday - the Thursday before Easter; commemorates the Last Supper
- corpus christi - Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246
- june 29, saints peter and paul - first celebrated in the 3rd century
- epiphany, epiphany of our lord, january 6, three kings' day, twelfth day - twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus
- march 19, saint joseph, st joseph - a Christian holy day
- twelfth night - eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5
- all souls' day, november 2 - a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory
- ash wednesday - the 7th Wednesday before Easter; the first day of Lent; the day following Mardi Gras (`Fat Tuesday'); a day of fasting and repentance
- ember day - a day set aside for fasting and prayer
- advent sunday - the first of the four Sundays during Advent
- fat tuesday, mardi gras, pancake day, shrove tuesday - the last day before Lent
- august 6, transfiguration, transfiguration day - (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
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