The Christian calendar’s other days
The Christian calendar’s other days · World Questions
Beyond Christmas and Easter, the same Easter computus produces a whole series of days: Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi.
In the place where you live, which of this whole series of days worked out from the Easter computus — Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi — actually shows up on the statutory holiday calendar?
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Among the countries mentioned above, which one treats Corpus Christi at federal level as merely an optional working day, turning into a real statutory holiday only where a city council has legislated one?
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In your own local holiday calendar, is there a day that happens to fall on a religious observance but is actually a day off for an unrelated reason?
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Which country gives a day off on December 25 for a reason that has no legal connection to Christmas — just a calendar coincidence?
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Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi — which of these best describes your own everyday reality?
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Which country's presidential decree officially renamed a Christian holiday from its Islamic-context name to a Christian one?
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Which country makes both Good Friday and Ascension statutory national holidays, and adds a nationwide collective leave day right after Ascension?
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Aside from Christmas, how many extra days off does your country give around Easter (Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension)?
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