The Nativity Fast is a period of abstinence and pena nce practiced by the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches, in preparation for the Nativity of Christ, (December 25).[ 1] The fast is similar to the Western Advent, except th at it runs for 40 days instead of four weeks. The fast is observed from Nov ember 15 to December 24, inclusively. These dates apply to those Orthodox C hurches which use the Revised Julian calendar, which is identical to the Gregorian calendar. For those national Churches which still fol low the Julian calendar (Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Monte negro, Serbia, and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem), the Winter Lent does not begin until November 28 (Gregorian) which coincides with November 15 on th e Julian calendar.
Sometimes the fast is called Philip's Fast (or the Philippian Fast), as it traditionally begins on the day following t he Feast of St. Philip the Apostle (November 14). Some church es have abbreviated the fast to start on December 10, following the Feast o f the C onception by Saint Anne of the Most Holy Theotokos.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern) (December 27th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Saint-Stephens-Day-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261227 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Saint-Stephens-Day-Eastern-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:St. Stephen's Day, or the Feast of St. Stephen, is a Christian saint's day celebrated on 26 Dece mber in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church. Many Eastern Orthodox churches adhere to the Julian calendar and mark St. S tephen's Day on 27 December according to that calendar, which places it on 9 January of the Gregorian calendar used in secular contexts. It commemorates St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protoma rtyr. It is an official public holiday in Austria, Balearic Islands, Cataloni a, Croat ia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Poland. The date is also a Public Holiday in those co untries that celebrate Boxing Day on the day instead/as well.
In Ireland, the day is one of nine official public holidays.[1]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Christmas (January 6th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Christmas-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270106 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Christmas-Eastern-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Cr
9;stesmæsse, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemora
tion of the birth of Jesus Christ,[5]
[
6] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3]<
/a>[4
] as a religious and cultural
holiday
by billions of people around the world. A feast
central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season
and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.
[7] Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9]
The precise year of Jesus' birth, which some historians place between 7 and 2
BC, is unknown.[13][14
] By the early-to-mid 4th century, Western C
hristianity had placed Christmas on December 25, a date later adopted i
n the East.[15][16] The date of Christm
as may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine m
onths after the Annunciation, the date Christians believe Jesus to have b
een conceived,[17] as well as the date of the s
outhern solstice, i.e., the Roman winter solstice), with
a sun connection being possible because Christians consider Jesus to be the
"Sun of righteousness" prophesied in Malachi 4:2.[17][18]<
/sup>[19][20]
Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Cr
9;stesmæsse, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemora
tion of the birth of Jesus Christ,[5]
[
6] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3]<
/a>[4
] as a religious and cultural
holiday
by billions of people around the world. A feast
central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season
and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.
[7] Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9]
The precise year of Jesus' birth, which some historians place between 7 and 2
BC, is unknown.[13][14
] By the early-to-mid 4th century, Western C
hristianity had placed Christmas on December 25, a date later adopted i
n the East.[15][16] The date of Christm
as may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine m
onths after the Annunciation, the date Christians believe Jesus to have b
een conceived,[17] as well as the date of the s
outhern solstice, i.e., the Roman winter solstice), with
a sun connection being possible because Christians consider Jesus to be the
"Sun of righteousness" prophesied in Malachi 4:2.[17][18]<
/sup>[19][20]
Shrove Monday, sometimes known as Collop Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, is the M onday before Ash Wednesday each/every year. A part of the English tradi tional Shrovetide celebrations of the week before Lent, the Monday prec edes Shrove Tuesday. As the Monday before Ash Wednesday, it is part o f diverse Carnival celebrations which take place in many parts of the Christian w orld, from Greece, to Germany, to the Mardi Gras and Carnival of the Americas .
The word shrove is the past tense of the English verb shr ive, which means to obtain absolution for one's sins by way of Confession and doing penance. Thus S hrovetide gets its name from the shriving that English Christians were expe cted to do prior to receiving absolution immediately before Lent begins. Sh rove Tuesday is the last day of "shrovetide", somewhat analogous to the Carnival tradition that developed separately in countries of Latin Europe. The term "Shrove Monday" or "Shrove Tuesday" are no longer widely used in t he United States outside of Liturgical Traditions, such as the Lutheran, Ep iscopal, and Roman Catholic Churches.[1][2< span>]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Shrove Tuesday (February 9th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Shrove-Tuesday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270209 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Shrove-Tuesday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday, Panca ke Day, Mardi Gras, and Fat Tuesday) is the day preceding Ash Wednesday , the first day of Lent. Shrove Tuesday is observed mainly in English speaking countries, [citation needed], but is also observed i n the Philippines and Germany. Shrove Tuesday is linked to Easter, so its date changes on an annual basis.
In most traditions the day is known f or the eating of pancakes before the start of Lent. Pancakes are eaten as t hey are made out of the main foods available, sugar, fat, flour and eggs, t he consumption of which was traditionally restricted during the ritual fasting asso ciated with Lent.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Green Monday (March 15th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Green-Monday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270315 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Green-Monday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Green Monday is an online retail industry term simil ar to Cyber Monday. The term was coined by eBay to describe its best sales day in Decem ber[1], tra ditionally the 2nd Monday of December. Green Monday is defined more specifi cally by business research organization comScore as the Monday with at leas t 10 days prior to Christmas. In 2009, $854 million was spent online in the US on Green Monday,[2] with sales in 2011 reaching $1.133 billion. [3]Green Monday in Gre ece and Cyprus is the movable feast day known elsewhere in the Greek Orthod ox Church as Clean Monday, the first day of Lent - approximately seven we eks before Easter. Traditionally families go to fields to barbecue fasting foods such as vegetables and seafood (not meat), later flying kites and pla ying other games.
Green Monday also refers to a network of sustainable development practitioners in the UK, which meets on the first Monday of every month in London to discuss critical env ironmental issues affecting business and industry. Climate change is a major theme.[4]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Clean Monday (March 15th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Clean-Monday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270315 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Clean-Monday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρά Δευτ έρα), also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday , Monday of Lent or Green Monday, is the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Chris tian and Eastern Catholic Great Lent. It is a movable feast that occurs at the beginning of th e 7th week before Orthodox Easter Sunday.
The common term for this day, "Clean Monday", refers to the leaving behind of sinful attitudes and non-fasting foods. It is sometimes called "Ash Monday, " by analogy with Ash Wednesday (the day when the Western Churches begi n Lent). The term is often a misnomer, as only a small subset of Eastern Ca tholic Churches practice the Imposition of Ashes. The Maronite Catholic Church is a notable Eastern rite that employs the use of ashes on this day.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Great Lent (March 15th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Great-Lent DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270315 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Great-Lent-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Great Lent, or the Great Fast, is the most im portant fast ing season in the church year in East ern Christianity, which prepares Christians for the greatest feast of t he church year, Pascha (Easter). In many ways Great Lent is similar to Lent in Wester n Christianity. There are some differences in the timing of Lent (besid es calculating the date of Easter) and how it is practiced, both liturgical ly in the public worship of the church and individually.
One differen ce between Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity is the calculation of the date of Easter (see Computus). Most years, the Eastern Pascha falls after the Western Easter, and it may be as much as five weeks later; occasionall y, the two dates coincide. Like Western Lent, Great Lent itself lasts for forty days, but unlike the West, Sundays are included in the count. Great Lent officially begins on Clean Monday, seven weeks before Pascha (Ash Wednesday is n ot observed in Eastern Christianity) and runs for 40 contiguous days, concl uding with the Presanctified Liturgy on Friday of the Sixth Week. The next day is called Lazarus Saturday, the day before Palm Sunday. Howev er, fasting continues throughout the following week, known as Passion Week or Holy Week, and does not end until after the Paschal Vigi l early in the morning of Pascha (Easter Sunday).
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Lazarus Saturday (April 24th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Lazarus-Saturday DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270424 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Lazarus-Saturday-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Lazarus Saturday, in the Ort hodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churche s which follow the Byzantine Rite, is the day before Palm Sunday, and is liturgically linked to it. The feast celebrates the resurrection of Lazarus of B ethany, the narrative of which is found in the New Testament Gosp el of John (John 11:1-45). It is the first day of Holy Week.
Lazarus Sat urday and Palm Sunday together hold a unique position in the church year, a s days of joy and triumph interposed between the penitence of Great Lent and the mourning of Holy Week.[1 ]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Palm Sunday (April 25th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Palm-Sunday-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270425 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Palm-Sunday-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in all four canonical Gospels. (Mark 11:1–11, Matth ew 21:1–11, Luke 19:28–44, and John 12:12–19).
In many Christian churches, Palm Sunday is marked by the distribution o f palm leaves (often tied into crosses) to the assembled worshipers. The di fficulty of procuring palms for that day's ceremonies in unfavorable climates for palms led to the substitution of boughs of box, yew< /a>, willow, or other native trees. The Sunday was often designated by the names of t hese trees, as Yew Sunday, or by the general term Branch Sunday.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Holy Week (April 25th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Holy-Week-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270425 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Holy-Week-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomas Sancta or Hebdomas Maior, "Greater Week"; Greek: Ἁγία κα ὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδ&omicro n;μάς, Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas) in Christianity is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sund ay, Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday, and Holy Satu rday. It does not include Easter Sunday. In Eas tern Orthodox tradition, Holy Week starts on Lazarus Saturday, th e day before Palm Sunday. (Easter Sunday, for context, is the first day of the new season of the Great Fifty Days, or Eastertide, there being fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday.)
Holy Week in the Christian year is the week immediately before Easter. The e arliest Catholic allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole wit h special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the lat ter half of the 3rd century and 4th century. In this text, abstinence from flesh is commanded for all the days, while for the Friday and Sunday an abs olute fast is commanded. Dionysius Alexandrinus in his canonical epistle (A D 260), refers to the 91 fasting days implying that the observance of them had already become an established usage in his time.[1]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Holy Wednesday (April 28th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Holy-Wednesday-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270428 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Holy-Wednesday-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:In Christianity, Holy Wednesday (also called Sp y Wednesday, and in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Holy and Great Wednesday, Greek : Μεγάλη Τετά& rho;τη, Megale Tetarte) is the Wednesday of the Holy Week, t he week before Easter. It is followed by Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday).
In Western Christianity, the Wednesday before Easter i s sometimes known as "Spy Wednesday", as a reference to the betrayal of Jes us by Judas Iscariot.[1][2]< /a>, indicating that it is the day that Judas Iscariot first co nspired with the Sanhedrin to betray Jesus for thirty silver coins. [3][4]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Good Friday (Eastern) (April 30th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Good-Friday-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270430 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Good-Friday-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:April 6 (Western)
Good Frida
y (from the senses pious, holy of the word "good"),[1] is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is ob
served during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday pr
eceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Je
wish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Fri
day, Black Friday,[2
Holy Saturday (Latin:
Holy Saturday is sometime s called Easter Saturday,[ 2] though this phrase is more correctly applied to t he Saturday in Easter Week.< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Saturday#cite_note-2">[3]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Easter (Eastern) (May 2nd, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Easter-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270502 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Easter-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Easter (Old Englis
h: Ēostre) or Pas
cha (Greek: Πάσχ&
alpha;, Paskha; Aramaic: פֶּסחא Pasḥa
; from Hebrew: פ&
#1462;ּסַח Pesa
717;)[1
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in rel ation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.[8] Ecclesiastically, th e equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, as tronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is n ot necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefor e varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity< /a> bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March co rresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian c alendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Easter Monday (Eastern) (May 3rd, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Easter-Monday-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270503 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Easter-Monday-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Easter Monday (also known as Egg Nyte) is the day after Eas ter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures, especially Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox cultures. Easter Monday in the R oman Catholic liturgical calendar is th e second day of the octave of Easter Week and analogously i n the Eastern Orthodox Church is the second day of Bright Week.
Forme rly, the post-Easter festivities involved a week of secular cel ebration, but in many places this was reduced to one day in the 19th centur y. Events include egg rolling competitions and, in predominantly Roman Catholic countries, dousing other peopl e with water which traditionally had been blessed with holy water the day bef ore at Easter Sunday Mass and carried home to bless the house and food.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Easter Tuesday (Eastern) (May 4th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Easter-Tuesday-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270504 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Easter-Tuesday-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Easter Week is the period of seven days from Easter Sunday thr ough the Saturday following.
In the Latin Rite of < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" title="Roman Cathol icism" class="mw-redirect">Roman Catholicism, Anglican an d other Western churches, Easter Week is the week beginni ng with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday.[1] The term is sometimes inaccurately used to mean the week before Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week, and particularly confusing in this context is the secular usage of the term Easter Saturday to refer to the day known liturgically< /a> as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the day before Easter), rather than the Saturday following Easter.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:All Saints' Day (May 23rd, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/All-Saints-Day-Eastern DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270523 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-All-Saints-Day-Eastern-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:All Saints' Day (in the Roman Catholic Church officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hall ows or Hallowmas[3] ), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebr ated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown. In the Western calendar it is the day after Halloween and the day before All Souls' Day.
In Western Christian theology, the d ay commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. It is a national holiday in many historically Catholic countr ies. In the Catholic Church and many Anglican churches, the n ext day specifically commemorates the departed faithful who have not yet be en purif ied and reached heaven. Christians who celebrate All Saints' Day and Al l Souls' Day do so in the fundamental belief that there is a prayerful spir itual bond between those in purgatory (the 'Churc h Suffering'), those in heaven (the 'church triumphant'), and the living (the 'church mili tant'). Other Christian traditions define, remember and respond to the saints in different ways; for example, in the Met hodist Church, the word "saints" refers to all Christians a nd therefore, on All Saint's Day, the Church Univ ersal, as well as the deceased members of a local congregation, are honoured and remembered.[2][4]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260613T173757Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Saints Cyril and Methodius Day (EO) (May 24th, 2027 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Saints-Cyril-and-Methodius-Day-EO DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270524 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Saints-Cyril-and-Methodius-Day-EO-00002027 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Saints Cyril and Methodius (Greek: Κύριλλο&sigmaf ; καὶ Μεθόδιο&si gmaf;, Old Church Slavonic: Кѷриллъ и Меѳодїи [more]) were < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Greeks" title="Byzantine Gre eks">Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century .[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Th ey were Christian missionaries among the Slavic peo ples of the First Bulgarian Empire, Great Moravia , and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cu ltural development of all Slavs, for which they received the title "Apos tles to the Slavs". They are credited with devising the Gla golitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.[11] After their deaths, their pupils continued t heir missionary work among other Slavs. Both brothers are venerated in the Orthodox Church as saints with the title of "equ al-to-apostles". In 1880, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1980, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron s aints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia. [12]
The two brothers were born i
n
Thessaloniki – Cyril in 827–828 and Methodius in 815–
820. Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers; he was born Consta
ntine,[13] but took the name Cyril upon becoming a monk shortly before
his death,[14[16] according to the "Vita Cyrilli" ("The Life of Cyril"). Their father was Leo, a droungarios of the
Byzantine theme of Thessaloniki, and their m
other was Maria, who may have been a Slav.[17]
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vu lgate Latin Acts 1:9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu) is the Chr istian teaching found in the New Testament that the res urrected Jesus was taken up to heaven in his resurr ected body,[Acts 1:9-11] in the presence of eleven of his apostle s, occurring 40 days after the resurrection. In the biblical narrative, an angel te lls the watching disciples that Jesus' second coming will take place in the same man ner as his ascension.[1]
The Ascension of Jesus is professed in the N icene Creed and in the Apostles' Creed. The Ascension implies Jesus' humanity being taken into Heaven.[2] The Feast of the Ascension, celebrated on the 40th day of Easter (always a Thursday), is one of the chief feasts of the C hristian year.[2] The feast dates back at least to the lat er 4th century, as is widely attested.[2]
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