Divinity Atlas

Sacred Correspondences
The Calendar

Sunday 31 March 2024

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

Observed On This Date

Feast / celebration
The first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon falling on or after 21 March, by the Gregorian computus
Western reckoning. The Orthodox date is the second rule on this holiday.
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 1 of 50

Already Underway

Fast / abstinence
The whole of Ramadan, the ninth month
Day 22 of 29
Tabular reckoning, and stored as twenty-nine days so the month can never be reported as running into Eid al-Fitr. The month is twenty-nine or thirty days and begins on a sighted crescent in most communities.

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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.