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==== Religious single-day observances ==== {{further|Date of Easter}} [[File:Sacred Heart 1770.jpg|thumb|The [[Feast of the Sacred Heart]] occurs in June during the [[Month of the Sacred Heart]]]] As [[Easter]] is celebrated on the first Sunday after the [[w:Paschal full moon|Paschal full moon]], which is the first [[w:full moon|full moon]] on or after 21 March (a fixed approximation of the [[w:March equinox|March equinox]]), [[Ascension Day]], observed 39 days after Easter, can occur in June.<ref>{{cite book|author=[[Bede]]|year=1999|title=[[The Reckoning of Time]]|translator=Faith Wallis|publisher=[[Liverpool University Press]]|isbn=978-0-85323-693-1|pages=xviiiโxx}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bednarek|first=M.|date=n.d.|title=Easter Dates from 1600 to 2099|url=https://www.census.gov/data/software/x13as/genhol/easter-dates.html|work=[[X-13ARIMA-SEATS]]|publisher=[[census.gov]]|access-date=12 March 2024}}</ref> [[Pentecost]] is the fiftieth day after Easter Sunday, while [[Trinity Sunday]] is the first Sunday after Pentecost.<ref name="Nachum">{{cite book|first1=Nachum|last1=Dershowitz|first2=Edward M.|last2=Reingold|year=2008|title=Calendrical Calculations|edition=3|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-88540-9|page=119}}</ref> The [[Catholic Church]] also observes the [[Feast of the Sacred Heart]], which happens on the Friday following the second Sunday after Pentecost.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hoffner|first=Helen|others=Illustrated by Folles, Deirdre|year=2018|title=Catholic Traditions and Treasures: An Illustrated Encyclopedia|publisher=[[Sophia Institute Press]]|isbn=978-1-62282-484-7|page=26}}</ref> The [[Feast of Corpus Christi]], observed by the [[Latin Church]] and certain [[Western Rite Orthodoxy|Western Orthodox]], [[Lutheran]], and [[Anglican]] churches, takes place on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.<ref name="Nachum"/> The [[feast of Saints Peter and Paul]], a [[liturgical feast]] observed by numerous denominations, always occurs on 29 June.<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Bishop|year=2023|title=Discourses of Philology and Theology in Nietzsche: From the "Untimelies" to The Anti-Christ|publisher=Springer International Publishing|isbn=978-3-031-42272-0|page=26}}</ref> In Buddhism, [[Vesak]] (Buddha Day), the most significant [[Buddhist festival]], occurs on 2 June in Singapore and on 3 June in Thailand as of 2024.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/vesak-day-next-year-to-fall-on-june-2-singapore-to-have-7-long-weekends-in-2023|title=Vesak Day revised to fall on June 2 next year; Singapore to have 7 long weekends in 2023|work=[[The Straits Times]]|date=19 January 2023|orig-date=Originally published 29 September 2022|access-date=12 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Neill|last=Fronde|date=31 December 2022|url=https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/events/thai-holidays-in-2023|title=Thai holidays in 2023|work=[[The Thaiger]]|access-date=12 March 2024}}</ref> [[Shavuot]], one of the biblically-ordained [[Three Pilgrimage Festivals]] observed in [[Judaism]], takes place during the month of [[Sivan]] in the [[Hebrew calendar]], which corresponds to being between May and June in the Gregorian calendar.<ref>{{cite book|last=Steinberg|first=Paul|editor-first=Janet Greenstein|editor-last=Potter|year=2007|title=Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays|edition=1|volume=3|publisher=[[Jewish Publication Society]]|isbn=978-0-8276-0850-4|page=136}}</ref> [[Islamic holidays]] are determined by the [[Islamic calendar|Hijri calendar]] (colloquially the Islamic calendar), a [[lunar calendar]] of 354 or 355 days; thus, Islamic observances do not align with those of the Gregorian calendar.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/resources/islamic-calendar/|title=Islamic Calendar 2024 โ Hijri Calendar 1445/1446|work=Islamic Calendar|publisher=[[Islamic Relief]]|date=n.d.|access-date=20 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Ilyas|first=Mohammad|year=1984|title=A Modern Guide to Astronomical Calculations of Islamic Calendar, Times & Qibla|publisher=Berita Publishing|isbn=978-967-969-009-5|page=80}}</ref> This is the same for [[Hindu holidays]], which are based on the [[Hindu calendar]].<ref>{{cite book|first1=Peter J.|last1=Claus|first2=Sarah|last2=Diamond|first3=Margaret Ann|last3=Mills|title=South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93919-5|page=91}}</ref>
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