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This is the day that a Saint is commemorated in the Christian Church
Click on the Calendar of Saints link below and there you will find a calendar of every day of the year. Click on any date and you will be shown a list of saints memorialized that day.
The Islamic calendar month only has 28 days, where as the Georgian calendar month varies between 28 and 31 days (depending on the month). This means that the Islamic calendar is shorter than the Georgian calendar by approximately 11 days every year. For this reason Islamic religious evens such as the Holy month of Ramadan, migrate forward each year by about 11 days. Christian religious events tend to remain on the same day of the Georgian calendar each year (or within a few days).
Saint Erasmus, also known as Saint Elmo, was a Christian bishop who lived during the 3rd and 4th centuries. He is believed to have been martyred for his faith in 303 AD. He was officially recognized as a saint in the early days of the Christian church.
The Julian Calendar had accumulated an error of 10 days during the roughly 1 1/2 millennia that it was in widespread use.
The Serbian Orthodox mainly have family saint days (or 'Slava') which is when the family became Christian, and they adopt that saint's name for their Slava celebrations. For example, if the family became Christian on 20 January (old calendar) they would celebrate St John the Baptist as their family's patron saint. Other Orthodox Christians have individual name days for each person (not for the family) based on which saint's name they were given at their Baptism. For example, a person baptised with the name Paul would celebrate on St Paul's Day on 29 July, or a person baptised with the name Barbara would celebrate on St Barbara's Day on 4 December.
On Good Friday, the most solemn day of the liturgical calendar, there are no other feast days observed.
Exactly what the origin of the noun shows = holly days, red-letter days = days writen in red in the religious calendars, when it was forbidden to work. They celebrated saint days, Christmas and Easter, plus other major Christian events (the Announciation, the Ascension a.s.o.).
The western world (as well as most of the rest of the world) uses the Gregorian calendar. The calendar is of Christian and Roman pagan origins. The months and days of the week are named after Roman pagan gods and goddesses, and the calendar's epoch date (starting point) is 1 AD, the year Jesus Christ is estimated to have been born. The calendar has 365 days.
Calendar days are every day on the calendar, including weekend days, weekdays, business days and holidays. So, for example, 10 calendar days after the 4th of a month is the 14th of the same month.
February is the shortest month with only 28 days, 29 if it happens to be a leap year.
Calendar Days was created on 2003-02-08.