Moveable Feasts in Christianity
- Triodion – the period of 70 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
- Septuagesima – 63 days (ninth Sunday) before Easter (Pre–Vatican II Calendar)
- Saturday of Souls – 57 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
- Sexagesima – 56 days (eighth Sunday) before Easter (Pre–Vatican II Calendar)
- Quinquagesima Sunday – 49 days (seventh Sunday) before Easter (Pre–Vatican II Calendar)
- Shrove Monday – 48 days before Easter. (Western Christianity)
- Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras – 47 days before Easter. (Western Christianity; not technically a moveable feast, because it is not a holiday on any church calendar)
- Ash Wednesday – 46 days before Easter. (Western Christianity; strictly speaking, not a feast but a fast, characterised by solemnity and acts of self-denial)
- Triumph of Orthodoxy – 42 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
- People's Sunday – 41 days before Easter (in Malta)
- Mothering Sunday – 21 days before Easter (Anglicanism)
- Passion Sunday – 14 days before Easter (Anglicanism)
- Lazarus Saturday – 8 days before Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic)
- Palm Sunday – 7 days before Easter
- Maundy Thursday – 3 days before Easter
- Good Friday – 2 days before Easter (Good Friday is actually a fast rather than a feast. See Ash Wednesday above.)
- Holy Saturday - 1 day before Easter
- Easter – the date around which the others are placed
- Saint Gregory's Day – 3 days after Easter (in Malta)
- The Octave of Easter or Divine Mercy Sunday, also known as Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday – the Sunday after Easter.
- Radonitsa – 8 or 9 days after Easter (Eastern Orthodox)
- Ascension Day – 39 days after Easter
- Pentecost – 49 days after Easter (50th day of Easter)
- Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday – the day after Pentecost
- Trinity Sunday – 56 days after Easter (Western Christianity)
- All Saints' Day – 56 days after Easter (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Greek-Catholic), but in the West this feast is fixed on November 1
- Corpus Christi – 60 days after Easter (Western Christianity)
- feast days of some significant saints' days, if a moveable feast falls too close to their usual date.
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