The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Fast / abstinence
The Friday before Easter Sunday
Already Underway
Penitential season
From Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday, the week before Easter
Day 6 of 7
Fast / abstinence
The forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday, Sundays not counted
Day 45 of 46
Forty days, counted excluding Sundays, which is why the span is forty-six.
Linked multi-day sequence forming the year's summit observance
From the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday, through Good Friday and Holy Saturday, to evening prayer on Easter Sunday
Day 2 of 3
Feast / celebration
15-21 Nisan; 15-22 Nisan in the Diaspora
Day 6 of 7
Seven days in the Land of Israel and among Reform communities. Eight in much of the Diaspora.
This Week In Space and Astronomy History
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.