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Some Christian festivals and when they occur according to Roman and Protestant (Western) Christianity are:
( Eastern Orthodox calendar information needs to be added here.)
See also Liturgical yearReligious festival. The liturgical year also known as the Christian year consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in some Christian churches which determines when Feasts, Memorials, Commemorations and Solemnities are to be observed and which portions o and Calendar of saintsA calendar of saints forms a way of organising a liturgical year on the finely-granulated level of days by assigning each day to association with a saint. This calendar system, when combined with major church festivals and movable and immovable feasts, co, and compare Julian calendarThe Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, taking force in 45 BC or 709 ab urbe condita''. It was chosen after consultation with the Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known sinc. Christian calendars need to be concerned with computing the date of Easter.