Religious Festival Dates 2012

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January Thu 9 Sun 1 Milad un Nabi (Shia) (Muslim) Circumcision (Christian) Sat 11 New Year's Day (Secular) Our Lady of Lourdes (Christian) Oshogatsu (or Shogatsu) (Shinto) Tue 14 Festival of St Basil the Great (Christian) St Valentine's Day (Christian) Thu 5 Wed 15 Birthday of Guru Gobind Singh (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Nirvana day (alternative date) (Buddhist) Fri 6 Mon 20 Epiphany (Christian) Mahashivratri (Hindu) Christmas Day (Armenian Orthodox) (Christian) Tue 21 Theophany (Orthodox) (Christian) Shrove Tuesday (Christian) Sat 7 Wed 22 Christmas Day (Orthodox) (Christian) Ash Wednesday (Christian) Christmas Day (Ethiopian) (Rastafari) Mon 27 Sun 8 Clean Monday - Beginning of Lent (Orthodox) (Christian) Baptism of the Lord (Christian) First Sunday after Epiphany (Christian) March Fri 13 Thu 1 St Hilary's Day (Christian) St David's Day (Christian) Sat 14 Fri 2 Makar Sankranti (Hindu) Nineteen Day Fast (start) (Bahai) Sun 15 Sat 3 Seijin Shiki (Adults' Day) (Shinto) Hina-matsuri - Festival of Dolls (Shinto) Wed 18 Mon 5 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (start) (Christian) St Piran's Day (Christian) Sat 21 Wed 7 St Agnes (Christian) Fast of Esther (Taanit Esther) (Jewish) Mon 23 Thu 8 Chinese New Year (Chinese) Purim (Jewish) Wed 25 Holi (Hindu) St Paul's Day (Christian) Fri 9 Sat 28 Shushan Purim (Jewish) St Thomas Aquinas (Christian) Hola Mohalla (Lunar Calendar) (Sikh) Vasant Panchami (Hindu) Sat 17 Tue 31 St Patrick's Day (Christian) Birthday of Guru Har Rai (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Sun 18 Mothering Sunday (Christian) February Mon 19 Thu 2 St Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian) Candlemas (Christian) Tue 20 Imbolc (Pagan) Spring Equinox - Eoster (Pagan) Fri 3 Wed 21 Rissun (Setsubun) (Shinto) Naw-Ruz (Bahai) Sat 4 Jamshedi Noruz (Fasli) (Zoroastrian) Milad un Nabi (Birthday of the Prophet Muhammad) Shubun-sai - Equinox day (Shinto) (Muslim) Fri 23 Tue 7 Ugadi (Yugadi) (Hindu) Magha Puja (Buddhist) Sun 25 Wed 8 Annunciation (Christian) Parinirvana - Nirvana day (Buddhist) Mon 26 Tu B'Shevat (Jewish) Khordad Sal (Fasli) (Zoroastrian) © insidetime - insideinformation Botley Mills Botley Southampton SO30 2GB Religious Festival Dates Information Factsheet 2012 Page 2 of 4

April Shavuot (1st day) (Jewish) Sun 1 Tue 29 Rama Navami (Hindu) Ascension of Baha'u'llah (Bahai) Palm Sunday (Christian) Swaminarayan Jayanti (Hindu) June Thu 5 Sun 3 Maundy Thursday (Christian) Trinity Sunday (Christian) Fri 6 Thu 7 Good Friday (Christian) Corpus Christi (Christian) Fast of the Firstborn (Jewish) Sun 10 Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu) Corpus Christi (Catholic Church in England and Wales) Theravada New Year (Buddhist) (Christian) Sat 7 All Saints' Day (Orthodox) (Christian) Passover (1st day) (Jewish) Sat 16 Sun 8 Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Easter Sunday (Western) (Christian) Wed 20 Fri 13 Summer Solstice - Litha (Pagan) Vaisakhi (Sikh) Fri 29 Sat 14 St Peter's Day (Christian) Birthday of Guru Nanak (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Hola Mohalla (Nanakshahi Calendar) (Sikh) July Passover (final day) (Jewish) Tue 3 Sun 15 Asala - Dharma Day (Buddhist) Easter (Orthodox) (Christian) Thu 5 Wed 18 Birthday of Guru Hargobind (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Birthday of Guru Tegh Bahadur (Nanakshahi calendar) Sun 8 (Sikh) 17th Tammuz (Jewish) Birthday of Guru Angad Dev (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Mon 9 Thu 19 Martyrdom of the Bab (Bahai) Yom Hashoah (Jewish) Sun 15 Sat 21 St Swithin's Day (Christian) Ridvan - first day (Bahai) Thu 19 Anniversary of Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica (Rastafari) Jamshedi Noruz (Qadimi) (Zoroastrian) Mon 23 Fri 20 St George's Day (Christian) Ramadan (start) (Muslim) Wed 25 Mon 23 Yom Hazikaron (Jewish) Birthday of Guru Har Krishen (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Thu 26 Birthday of Haile Selassie I (Rastafari) Yom Ha'atzmaut (Jewish) Tue 24 Sun 29 Pioneer Day (Mormon) Ridvan - ninth day (Bahai) Khordad Sal (Qadimi) (Zoroastrian) Sun 29 May Tisha B'Av (Jewish) Tue 1 Beltane (Pagan) August Wed 2 Wed 1 Ridvan - twelfth day (Bahai) Lughnasadh - Lammas (Pagan) Birthday of Guru Arjan Dev (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Thu 2 Sat 5 Raksha Bandhan (Hindu) Wesak or Buddha day (Buddhist) Mon 6 Thu 10 Transfiguration (Christian) Lag B'Omer (Jewish) Fri 10 Thu 17 Janmashtami - Krishna Jayanti (Hindu) Ascension Day (Christian) Wed 15 Sun 20 Dormition of the Theotokos (Christian) Ascension Day (Catholic Church in England and Wales) Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian) (Christian) Fri 17 Yom Yerushalayim (Jewish) Birthday of Marcus Garvey (Rastafari) Wed 23 Sat 18 Declaration of the Bab (Bahai) Jamshedi Noruz (Shenshai) (Zoroastrian) Birthday of Guru Amar Das (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Sun 19 Sun 27 Eid-Ul-Fitr (Muslim) Pentecost - Whitsun (Christian) Thu 23 © insidetime - insideinformation Botley Mills Botley Southampton SO30 2GB Religious Festival Dates Information Factsheet 2012 Page 3 of 4

Khordad Sal (Shenshai) (Zoroastrian) All Saints' Day (Hallowmas, All Hallows') (Christian) September Fri 2 Sat 8 Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I (Rastafari) Nativity of the Theotokos (Christian) All Souls' Day (Christian) Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Christian) Sun 11 Feast of the Birth of Mary (Christian) Armistice Day (Multifaith) Tue 11 Mon 12 Ethiopian New Year (Rastafari) Birth of Baha'u'llah (Bahai) Mon 17 Tue 13 Rosh Hashanah (1st day) (Jewish) Diwali (Hindu) Wed 19 Diwali (Jain) Fast of Gedalliah (Jewish) Diwali (Sikh) Sat 22 Thu 15 Autumn Equinox (Pagan) Shichigosan (7-5-3 festival) (Shinto) Wed 26 Al-Hijira (Muslim) Yom Kippur (Jewish) Fri 23 Sat 29 Niinamesei (Shinto) Michaelmas/St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael's Day Sat 24 (Christian) Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Ashura (Muslim) October Mon 26 Mon 1 Day of the Covenant (Bahai) Sukkot (Jewish) Wed 28 Tue 2 Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha (Bahai) Feast of the Guardian Angels (Christian) Birthday of Guru Nanak (Lunar Calendar) (Sikh) Sun 7 Fri 30 Hoshanah Rabbah (Jewish) St Andrew's Day (Christian) Mon 8 Shemini Atzeret (Jewish) Tue 9 December Simchat Torah (Jewish) Sun 2 Birthday of Guru Ram Das (Nanakshahi calendar) (Sikh) Advent Sunday (Christian) Sat 13 Sat 8 St Edward's Day (Christian) Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Christian) Tue 16 Bodhi Day (Buddhist) Navaratri (start) (Hindu) Sun 9 Sat 20 Hanukkah (Jewish) Birth of the Bab (Bahai) Thu 13 Wed 24 St Lucy's Day (Christian) Dussera (Hindu) Fri 21 Fri 26 Winter Solstice - Yule (Pagan) Eid-Ul-Adha (Muslim) Mon 24 Wed 31 Christmas Eve (Christian) Samhain (Hallowe'en) (Pagan) Tue 25 Hallowe'en (All Hallows' Eve) (Christian) Christmas Day (Christian) Wed 26 Boxing Day (Secular) November St Stephen's Day (Christian) Thu 1

The information above has been collated by Inside Time from various sources and is correct to the best of our knowledge. Information can be verified by checking with your faith leader. Many Jewish festivals start the evening before.

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