|
Holidays Around the WorldAll Countries • All Holidays • Major Religions • Multi-CulturalChristian CalendarOrthodox New Year Celebrated by Orthodox Christians
Orthodox New Year: January 14Orthodox New Year is a religious observance for Orthodox Christians all over the world. Orthodox New Year is also known as Old New Year. The New Year falls on January 1 on the old Julian calendar, corresponding to January 14 on the modern Gregorian calendar, and it will remain as such until 2100. Orthodox Christians follow the Julian calendar that was the effective calendar before the appearance of the Gregorian calendar edited by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. Feast of the Immaculate Conception Celebrated by Christians
Feast of the Immaculate Conception Date: December 8Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a religious observance for Christians all over the world. On December 8, Christians all over the world celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is a day to celebrate the dogma of the conception of Mary, mother of Jesus, without any stain of the original sin. Advent Sunday Celebrated by Christians Around the Globe
Advent Sunday: November 29Advent Sunday is a religious observance for Christians around the world. Advent Sunday is the fourth Sunday before Christmas and is the first day of the liturgical year for Western Christian Churches. It is the start of the season of Advent that will end on Christmas and is the time of preparation for the birth of Jesus and his presence among us. Advent comes from the Latin word adventus (arrival). The Building of the Cross Observed by Orthodox Coptic Christians
Building of the Cross Date: September 27Building of the Cross is a religious observance for Orthodox Coptic Christians all over the world. The Feast of the Building of the Cross is celebrated on September 27. On the Coptic calendar it falls on the seventeenth day of the month of Tout, and it commemorates the dedication of the Church of the Holy Cross built by the mother of Emperor Constantine, Queen Helen. Jesus Transfiguration
Jesus’s Transfiguration Date: August 19Jesus’s Transfiguration is observed by members of Orthodox Christianity. Jesus’s Transfiguration is the event in which the Jesus was transfigured upon a mountain. It was on 19th of August that this mournful even took place and the world was astonished to see the transfiguration of the Jesus. Jesus became glowing and spoke to Moses and Elijah (very important figure of the Judaism) and was called Son by God. Those, who show this incident, was asked by the Jesus not to reveal about the even to anyone until he rises in the cross and that would be done on the third day of his death. Next Page » |
|||
