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Introduction
The influence of the medieval chuch in creating and observing Saints' Days led to the recording of tevents by reference to the feast day, or saints' day rather than the direct system of dating by day, month and year.
Saints' Days and Festivals
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Saints' Day or Festival |
Modern Observance |
| Advent Sunday | Sunday nearest to Feast of Saint Andrew |
| All Hallows or All Saints Day | 1 November |
| All Souls' Day | 2 November |
| Andrew, Andreas, Andreae, apostle | 30 November |
| Feast of Anna, Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 26 July |
| Annunciatio of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Annuniciatio dominica - Lady Day | 25 March |
| Ascension Day or Holy Thursday, Ascensio, Ascensa, domini (in celum) | Thursday following Rogation Sunday, 40 days after Easter |
| Ash Wednesday | 1st Day of Lent |
| Assumptio domini, Christi | Old name for Ascension Day |
| Black Monday | Easter Monday |
| Candlemas Day, Candelaria, Candelatio | 2 February |
| Cantate | 4th Sunday after Easter |
| Capitiluvium | Palm Sunday |
| Caput jejunii | Ash Wednesday |
| Caramentranun, Caremprenium | Shrove Tuesday |
| Caresme | Lent (40 days of fasting) |
| Carnibrevium | Shrove Tuesday |
| Carniprivium novum | Quinquagesima Sunday |
| Carniprivium sacerdotum | Septuagesima Sunday |
| Carniprivium vetus | Quadragesima Sunday |
| Carnivora | Shrove Tuesday |
| Christmas Day | 25 December |
| Circumdederunt | Septuagesima Sunday |
| Clausum Pentecostes | Trinity Sunday |
| Commovisti terram et conturbasti eam | Sexagesima Sunday |
| Corpus Christi or Body of Christ | Thursday after Trinity Sunday |
| Crucis, Adoratio (or dies sancte crucis adorate, dies crucis adorande, veneris dis adoratus | Good Friday |
| David of Wales, bishop and confessor | 1 March |
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Passion Sunday |
| Domine, ne longe | Palm Sunday |
| Dominica ad carnes levandas or tollendas | Quinquagesima Sunday |
| Dominica ante brandones | Quinquagesima Sunday |
| Dominica bendicta | Trinity Sunday |
| Dominica duplex | Trinity Sunday |
| Dominica indulgentie, indulgentiae | Palm Sunday |
| Dominica ramis palmarum | Palm Sunday |
| Dominica mediana | Passion Sunday |
| Dominica olivarum | Palm Sunday |
| Dominica osanna | Palm Sunday |
| Dominica in passione domini | Passion Sunday |
| Dominica Quadraginta | Quinquagesima Sunday |
| Dominica Rogationum | 5th Sunday after Easter |
| Dominica sancta or Sancta in Pasha | Easter Sunday |
| Dominica sactae trinitatis | Trinity Sunday |
| Easter (see Pascha) | |
| Edmund, Edmundus, King and Martyr | 20 November |
| Epiphania domini, twelfth day | 6 January |
| Epiphany, twelfth day | 6 January |
| Esto mihi | Quinquargesima Sunday |
| Exaud | 6th Sunday after Easter |
| Exsurge domine | Sexagesima Sunday |
| Fastmas, Fastren's Eve | Shrove Tuesday |
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| Good Friday | Friday next before Easter |
| Hallowmas, Hallows, Hallontide (All Saints Day) | 1 November |
| Hogmanay | 31 December |
| Holy Friday (Good Friday) | Friday next before Easter |
| Holy Thursday | Ascension Day; Maundy Thursday |
| In palmis | Palm Sunday |
| Invocavit (Quadregesima) | 6th Sunday before Easter |
| Isti sunt dies | Passion Sunday |
| Jacobi, Jacobus, James the Greater (Apostle and Martyr) | 25 July |
| Jacobus, James the Less and Phillip (Philippus et Jacobus) | 1 May |
| Johannes, Johannis, John Apostle and evangelist | 8 May & 27 December |
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| Jour de pain perdu | Shrove Tuesday |
| Jour de Morts | All Souls' Day |
| Jour de Roys | The Epiphany |
| Jour du Saint Sacrement | Corpus Christi Day |
| Jubilianti | 3rd Sunday After Easter |
| Judica me, Judica | Passion Sunday, 5th Sunday in Lent, 2nd before easter |
| Lady Day | 25 March |
| Lady, Our | (See Mariae, Blessed Virgin) |
| Lammas Day | 1 August |
| Lataere | 4th Sunday in Lent, 3rd before Easter |
| Lent | (see Quadragesima) |
| Lucas, Luke, evangelist | 18 October |
| Marcus, Mark, evangelist | 25 April |
| Maria, Mariae, Mary, Blessed Virgin: | |
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| Matthaeus, Matteus, Matthew, apostle and evangelist | 21 September |
| Michael, Michaelis, archangel (Michael & All Angels) Michaelmas | 29 September |
| Midsummer Day | 24 June |
| Midwinter Day | 25 December |
| Misericordia | 2nd Sunday after Easter |
| Nouvel Caresme | Quinquagesima Sunday |
| Oculi | 3rd Sunday in Lent, 4th before Easter |
| Osanna | Palm Sunday |
| Palm Sunday, palmae or palmarum dies, in palmas | 6th Sunday in Lent, 6th Sunday after Shrove Tuesday |
| Pancake Tuesday | Shrove Tuesday |
| Paque charneux | Easter Day |
| Paque communuant, escommunichant, or communiaux | Easter Sunday |
| Paque de Noel | Christmas Day |
| Pascha | Easter Day, i.e., Sunday after full moon on or next after 21 March |
| Pascha competentium | Palm Sunday |
| Pascha floridum, florum | Palm Sunday |
| Pascha patitum | Palm Sunday |
| Pascha rosarum | Pentecost |
| Passion Sunday | 5th Sunday in Lent |
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| Pentecost (Whit Sunday) | 7th Sunday & 50th day after Easter Day |
| Peter, Petri, Petrus, ad vincula (in chains) at Rome | 1 August |
| Philippus et Jacobus: Phillip and James the Less, apostles | 1 May |
| Purifacation of Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas) | 2 February |
| Quadragesima, Quadringesima (invocavit) | Lent, the 40 days proceding Easter |
| Quadragesima Sunday | 1st Sunday in Lent, 6th Sunday before Easter |
| Quadraginta | Quinquagesima Sunday |
| Quasimodo | 1st Sunday after Easter |
| Quinquagesima | Quinquagesima Sunday; also the 50 days from Easter to Pentecost, or the day of Pentecost |
| Quinquagesima Sunday (Shrove Sunday) | Sunday before Ash Wednesday, 7th Sunday before Easter |
| Ramispalma | Palm Sunday |
| Reminissnere | 2nd Sunday in Lent, 5th before Easter |
| Rogaion Sunday | 5th Sunday after Easter |
| (le) Roi des Dimanches | Trinity Sunday |
| Sancte in Pasche | Easter Sunday |
| Satirious | Easter Sunday |
| Septuagesima Sunday | 9th Sunday before Easter |
| Sexagesima Sunday | 8th Sunday before Easter |
| Shrove Tuesday | Tuesday before Ash Wednesday |
| Solemnitas solemnitatum | Easter Day |
| Soulemas or Sowlemas Day (All Souls' Day) | 2 November |
| Stephanus, Stephani, Stephen, protomartyr, feast of | 26 December |
| Thomae, Thomas, apostle | 21 December |
| Transfiguratio domini (Transfiguration of our Lord) | 6 August |
| Trinitas estivalis | Trinity Sunday, 8th Sunday after Easter |
| Trinity Sunday | Sunday after Pentecost, 8th Sunday after Easter |
| Tryphane | Epiphany (6 January) |
| Valentine | 14 February |
| Vendridi, saint | Good Friday |
| Verid-sore (for) Verdredi-adore | Good Friday |
| Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 2 July |
| Whit Sunday (Pentecost) | 7th Sunday after Easter |
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