ecclesiastical calendar

1. A calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals (synset 115206553)
   is a type of: gregorian calendar, new style calendar - the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752
   has:

   • holy week, passion week - the week before Easter
   • advent - the season including the four Sundays preceding Christmas
   • shrovetide - immediately preceding Lent
   • lent, lententide - a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday
   • whitsun, whitsuntide, whitweek - Christian holiday; the week beginning on Whitsunday (especially the first 3 days)
   same as: church calendar

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