January 1 Mary, Mother of God 1 Maundy Thursday April Feast Day of St Basil 2 Good Friday s m t w t f s Shogatsu/Gantan-sai (New Year’s) 4 Easter s m t w t f s 1 2 3 Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus 8 Yom HaShoah * 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 5 Twelfth Night 13 Hindu New Year ** varies 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Guru Gobindh Singh birthday Ramadan begins * 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 6 Epiphany 13-21 Ramayana 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Feast of the Epiphany (Theophany) 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 14 Baisakhi (Vaisakhi) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day) 15 Yom Ha'Atzmaut*
7 Feast of the Nativity ** 16 First Day of Ridvan * 10 Baptism of the Lord Jesus 13-21 Ramayana 13 Maghi 21 Ramanavami 17 Blessing of the Animals – Hispanic 23 St. George's Day World Religion Day 18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 24 Lazarus Saturday 25 Mahavir Jayanti 19 Timkat Ethiopian Palm Sunday 25 Conversion of St. Paul 27 Hanuman Jayanti 28 Tu BiShvat * Theravada New Year Mahayana New Year **
28 Ninth Day of Ridvan * 30 Lag B/Omer * Holy Friday
February 1 Saint Brigid of Kildare – Celtic 1 Beltane – Samhain n. and s. hem. May 2 Candlemas - Presentation of Christ in the Temple Twelfth Day of Ridvan s m t w t f s s m t w t f s Imbolc - Lughnassah* n. & s. hem 2 Pascha (Easter) 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 St. Blaze Day Last Day of Ridvan * 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Setsebun sai (beginning of spring) 3 Saints Philip & James 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Int 5 Four Chaplains Sunday Int 4 National Day of Prayer – USA 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 8 Nirvana Day ** 8 Visakha Puja - Buddha Day ** 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 28 12 Chinese New Year 9 Laylat al Kadr * 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 14 St. Valentine's Day 30 31 13 Ascension of Jesus 15 Nirvana Day ** 14-16 Eid al Fitr * 16 Vasant Panchami ** 17-18 Shavuot * Shrove Tuesday 17 Ash Wednesday - Lent begins 18 Tish'a B'av * 21 Triodion begins 23 Pentecost 26 Purim 23 Declaration of the Bab * 24-28 Intercalary Ayyám-i-Há 28 Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh* 30 Trinity Sunday
March 1 St. David of Wales 3 Corpus Christi June 2 - 20 Nineteen Day Fast * 9 St. Columba of Iona – Celtic s m t w t f s s m t w t f s 7 Meatfare Sunday 11 Sacred Heart of Jesus 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 Lailat al Miraj* 15 Saint Vladimir Day 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 12 Maha Shivaratri ** 16 Guru Arjan martyrdom 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 L. Ron Hubbard birthday 19 New Church Day 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 14 Cheesefare Sunday 20 Pentecost 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 31 15 Clean Monday – Great Lent begins 21 Litha* n. hem. Yule* s. hem. 27 28 29 30 17 St. Patrick's Day Solstice World Humanist Day
18 Waqf al Arafa 22 First Nations Day Canada 19 St. Joseph's Day 24 Saint John the Baptist 21 Ostara * n. hem. Mabon * s. hem. 29 Feast Day of Saints Peter and Paul Equinox Naw-Rúz (New Year) Norooz (New Year) – Persian Orthodox Sunday 25 Annunciation of the Virgin Mary 26 Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zaranhushtra)** 28 Lord's Evening Meal Magha Puja Day ** Lailat al Bara’ah Palm Sunday 28-4/8 Pesach (Passover)* 29 Holi ** 29-31 Hola Mohalla
July 3 St. Thomas the Apostle, Syrian 4 St Francis Day October 9 or 10 Blessing of the Animals Martyrdom of the Bab * s m t w t f s 7-14 Navaratri ** s m t w t f s 11 St Benedict Day 1 2 3 Int 11 Thanksgiving – Canada 1 2 15 St. Vladimir the Great Day 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 19 Waqf al Arafa - Hajj Day * 15 Dasara 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 20-23 Eid al Adha * 18 St. Luke, Apostle & Evangelist 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Mawlid an Nabi * 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 Emperor Haile Selassi - birthday 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 20 Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 24 Pioneer Day 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 Milvian Bridge Day 31 Asalha Puja Day 31 All Hallows Eve 25 St. James the Great Day Reformation Day ** - Protestant 31- Samhain - Beltane* n. & s. hem 11/1
August 1 Lammas 1 All Saints Day November Fast in Honor of Holy Mother of Jesus 2 All Souls Day s m t w t f s Lugnassad - Imbolc* n. & s. hem 4-8 Diwali - Deepavali ** s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3 Krishna Janmashtami 5 Vikram New Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 Transfiguration of the Lord Gujarat Jain New Year 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 10 New Year - Hijra * 6-7 Birth of the Bab and Baha’u’llah* 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 15 Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary 15 – Nativity Fast begins 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 12/24 29 30 31 Dormition of the Theotokos 28 29 30 19 Guru Nanak Dev Sahib birthday 18 Ashura * 21 Christ the King 22 Raksha Bandhan ** 24 Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahdur Obon ** Ullambana 25 Day of the Covenant * 29 Beheading of St. John the Baptist
Int Thanksgiving- USA 26 Feast of the Holy Family 27 Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha * 28- Advent 12/24 29- Hanukkah * 12/24 30 St. Andrew's Day
September 1 Religious year begins 6 Saint Nicholas Day December 6-12 Chalica s m t w t f s 4 Paryushana Parvarambha ** s m t w t f s 7-6 Rosh Hashanah * 8 Bodhi Day (Rohatsu) ** 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 8 Nativity of Virgin Mary Immaculate Conception of Mary 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Feast day - 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10 Ganesh Chaturthi 12 Our Lady of Guadalupe 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 11 Ethiopian new year – Rastafarian 16-25 Posadas Navidenas - Hispanic 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18-25 IllUUmination varies 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 13 Yom Kippur * 26 27 28 29 30 21 Yule 26 27 28 29 30 31 14 Elevation of the Life-Giving Cross (Holy Cross) Solstice Yule* - n. hem, Litha* - s. hem
21-27 Sukkot * 23 HumanLight 22 Mabon* n. hem. Ostara* s. hem 24 Christmas Eve Equinox 27 Meskel – Ethiopian Eritrian 25 Christmas * Feast of the Nativity ** 28 Shemini Atzeret * 26-1/1 Kwanzaa Michael and All Angels 29 26 Zarathosht Diso (Death of Zarathushtra) ** Simchat Torah* St Stephen's Day 27 Saint John - Apostle and Evangelist 28 Holy Innocents 30 Holy Family 31 Watch Night
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* Holy days usually begin at sundown the day before this date. ***Christianity lft. – rt. General, Catholic, Orthodox, Christian Science ** Local or regional customs may use a variation of this date. Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness, Rastafarian, Swedenborgian © 2020 Judy Lee Trautman
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