Home›Holidays & Festivals›Date Type›Fixed date in its own calendarBrowse ByFixed date in its own calendarThis page groups holidays by how their day was legally or ritually classed. Wikipedia notes that on Roman calendars "the religious status days were marked by letters such as F (for fastus), and N (for nefastus, when political activities and the administration of justice were prohibited)." Browsing by date type lets a visitor separate a holiday that suspended ordinary business from one that did not.FactsLearn MoreFixed date in its own calendarSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedDays a tradition's calendar sets apart - feasts, fasts, festivals, high holy days and lesser observances - each reckoned in the calendar of the tradition that keeps it. Those calendars are lunar, lunisolar, sidereal-solar or tropical-solar and none is the civil Gregorian year, so a date fixed in its own reckoning moves against the civil calendar year by year. 1Learn MoreThe Festivals and Holy Days This category holds the festivals and holy days of the religious calendars: fixed and movable feasts, fasts, new years, solstice and equinox observances, and commemorations of events and figures. Each entry records the tradition, the calendar by which the date is reckoned, and what the day marks. Holy days give a religion its year, a repeating cycle of remembrance and renewal that structures communal life. Some commemorate an event held to be historical or mythic; others mark a turn of the season or the calendar; others are set aside for fasting, penitence or joy.Reckoning the Date Because traditions use different calendars, the same festival can fall on different dates from year to year, and movable feasts (Easter, the Islamic festivals, the Hindu festivals set by lunar dates), shift against the civil calendar in ways the entries explain. The reckoning of dates is itself part of a festival's character, tying it to the calendars gathered elsewhere in the atlas. The holidays group by kind (feasts, fasts, festivals, high holy days and observances), so a reader can compare, for instance, the major fasts of several traditions together.Fixed date in its own calendarFilter Results151 entriesTraditionAllAfrican Methodist Episcopal Church (2)African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (2)Alevism (1)Alexandrian Wicca (2)Amish (1)Anabaptism (1)Anglican Communion (3)Anglicanism (4)Armenian Apostolic Church (5)Assyrian Church of the East (1)Baptist (1)Calvinism (Reformed) (2)Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (2)Church of Cyprus (8)Church of England (7)Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (1)Church of Greece (8)Church of Ireland (3)Church of Scotland (1)Church of Sweden (5)Church of the Nazarene (1)Coptic Orthodoxy (4)Dianic Wicca (2)Digambara (2)Disciples of Christ (1)Dutch Reformed Church (2)Eastern Orthodoxy (8)Eclectic Solitary Wicca (2)Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (8)Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church (3)Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church 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its own calendarChaturmasyaFixed date in its own calendarChhath PujaFixed date in its own calendarChinese New YearFixed date in its own calendarChristmasFixed date in its own calendarChristmastideFixed date in its own calendarChuseokFixed date in its own calendarCity DionysiaFixed date in its own calendarConfucius's BirthdayFixed date in its own calendarDarwin DayFixed date in its own calendarDas Lakshana ParvaFixed date in its own calendarDay of ArafahFixed date in its own calendarDay of the CovenantFixed date in its own calendarDeclaration of the BabFixed date in its own calendarDhanterasFixed date in its own calendarDia de los MuertosFixed date in its own calendarDies Natalis Solis InvictiFixed date in its own calendarDisablotFixed date in its own calendarDiwaliFixed date in its own calendarDormition of the TheotokosFixed date in its own calendarDragon Boat FestivalFixed date in its own calendarDurga PujaFixed date in its own calendarDussehraFixed date in its own calendarEid al-AdhaFixed date in its own calendarEid al-FitrFixed date in its own calendarEostreFixed date in its own calendarEpiphanyFixed date in its own calendarExaltation of the Holy CrossFixed date in its own calendarFeast of the AssumptionFixed date in its own calendarFeast of the Immaculate ConceptionFixed date in its own calendarFet GedeFixed date in its own calendarGai JatraFixed date in its own calendarGanesh ChaturthiFixed date in its own calendarGovardhan PujaFixed date in its own calendarGudi PadwaFixed date in its own calendarGudsisu FestivalFixed date in its own calendarGuru Gobind Singh GurpurabFixed date in its own calendarGuru Nanak GurpurabFixed date in its own calendarGuru PurnimaFixed date in its own calendarHamaspathmaidyem GahambarFixed date in its own calendarHanukkahFixed date in its own calendarHanuman JayantiFixed date in its own calendarHinamatsuriFixed date in its own calendarHola MohallaFixed date in its own calendarHoliFixed date in its own calendarHumanLightFixed date in its own calendarHungry Ghost FestivalFixed date in its own calendarImbolcFixed date in its own calendarIslamic New YearFixed date in its own calendarIsra and Mi'rajFixed date in its own calendarKarva ChauthFixed date in its own calendarKrishna JanmashtamiFixed date in its own calendarKukur TiharFixed date in its own calendarLantern FestivalFixed date in its own calendarLas PosadasFixed date in its own calendarLaylat al-Bara'ahFixed date in its own calendarLosarFixed date in its own calendarLughnasadhFixed date in its own calendarLupercaliaFixed date in its own calendarMagha PujaFixed date in its own calendarMaghiFixed date in its own calendarMaha ShivaratriFixed date in its own calendarMahavir JayantiFixed date in its own calendarMahavira Nirvana DiwasFixed date in its own calendarMaidyozarem GahambarFixed date in its own calendarMartyrdom of Guru ArjanFixed date in its own calendarMartyrdom of the BabFixed date in its own calendarMawlidFixed date in its own calendarMiccailhuitlFixed date in its own calendarMichaelmasFixed date in its own calendarMid-Autumn FestivalFixed date in its own calendarModranicht (Mothers' Night)Fixed date in its own calendarNaga PanchamiFixed date in its own calendarNativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryFixed date in its own calendarNavaratriFixed date in its own calendarNemontemiFixed date in its own calendarNineteen Day FeastFixed date in its own calendarNyepiFixed date in its own calendarObonFixed date in its own calendarOnamFixed date in its own calendarOur Lady of FatimaFixed date in its own calendarOur Lady of GuadalupeFixed date in its own calendarOur Lady of LourdesFixed date in its own calendarOur Lady of Mount CarmelFixed date in its own calendarOur Lady of SorrowsFixed date in its own calendarPanathenaeaFixed date in its own calendarPanquetzaliztliFixed date in its own calendarParinirvana DayFixed date in its own calendarParyushanaFixed date in its own calendarPassover (Pesach)Fixed date in its own calendarPchum BenFixed date in its own calendarPioneer DayFixed date in its own calendarPitru PakshaFixed date in its own calendarPongalFixed date in its own calendarPurimFixed date in its own calendarRaksha BandhanFixed date in its own calendarRam NavamiFixed date in its own calendarRamadanFixed date in its own calendarRatha YatraFixed date in its own calendarReformation DayFixed date in its own calendarRidvanFixed date in its own calendarRosh ChodeshFixed date in its own calendarRosh HashanahFixed date in its own calendarSamhainFixed date in its own calendarSaturnaliaFixed date in its own calendarShavuotFixed date in its own calendarShemini AtzeretFixed date in its own calendarShogatsu (New Year)Fixed date in its own calendarSimchat TorahFixed date in its own calendarSlavaFixed date in its own calendarSongkranFixed date in its own calendarSukkotFixed date in its own calendarTanabataFixed date in its own calendarThaipusamFixed date in its own calendarThe AnnunciationFixed date in its own calendarThe Holy InnocentsFixed date in its own calendarThe Nineteen-Day FastFixed date in its own calendarThe TransfigurationFixed date in its own calendarTheophanyFixed date in its own calendarThesmophoriaFixed date in its own calendarTimkatFixed date in its own calendarTisha B'AvFixed date in its own calendarToxcatlFixed date in its own calendarTu B'AvFixed date in its own calendarTu BiShvatFixed date in its own calendarUgadiFixed date in its own calendarVaikuntha EkadashiFixed date in its own calendarVaisakhiFixed date in its own calendarVasant PanchamiFixed date in its own calendarVat PurnimaFixed date in its own calendarVesakFixed date in its own calendarVestaliaFixed date in its own calendarVetrnaetr (Winter Nights)Fixed date in its own calendarWatch NightFixed date in its own calendarWayebFixed date in its own calendarYom KippurFixed date in its own calendarSources1. The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoningtier 1Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford University Press, 1999Part II: Calendars and ChronologyView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.