Topic: The Christian calendar’s other days
Does Taiwan have The Christian calendar’s other days?
Not observed here
None of the days the Easter computus generates exists in Taiwan's holiday system. The Act on Commemorative Days and Holidays lists nineteen commemorative days plus a schedule of festivals, and contains no Ash Wednesday, no Good Friday, no Ascension, no Pentecost and no Corpus Christi. The only date that coincides with a Christian one is 25 December, Constitution Day, which does carry a day off — but because the Constitution of the Republic of China took effect on that date in 1947. The overlap with Christmas is a coincidence of the calendar with no legal connection at all. Churches in Taiwan of course keep these days, with ashes, the Stations of the Cross and Holy Week services, but that is each church's own calendar and it does not move a working day.
What is this topic?
Beyond Christmas and Easter, the same Easter computus produces a whole series of days: Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi. How far a national calendar follows that series varies enormously. Indonesia, with the largest Muslim population in the world, makes both Good Friday and Ascension statutory national holidays and adds a collective leave day after Ascension. Brazil, the largest Catholic country, treats Corpus Christi at federal level as an optional working day, not a statutory holiday — it becomes a real holiday only where a city council has legislated one. The United States federal list of eleven holidays contains exactly one Christian day, Christmas. Pentecost appears nowhere: it always falls on a Sunday.
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