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Walpurgis Night (/ v æ l ˈ p ʊər ɡ ɪ s, v ɑː l-,-ˈ p ɜːr-/), [3] [4] an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht [zaŋkt valˈpʊʁɡɪsˌnaxt]), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve) and Walpurgisnacht, is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is ...
April, Brevarium Grimani, fol. 5v (Flemish) The Romans gave this month the Latin name Aprilis [1] but the derivation of this name is uncertain. The traditional etymology is from the verb aperire, "to open", in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open", which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of άνοιξη (ánixi) (opening) for spring.
A common folk etymology incorrectly analyzes Good Friday as a corruption of God Friday, similar to the linguistically correct description of goodbye as a contraction of 'God be with ye'. [13] In Old English, the day was called Long Friday ( langa frigedæg [ˈlɑŋɡɑ ˈfriːjedæj] ), [ clarification needed ] and equivalents of this term are ...
Easter falls on March 31 this year, meaning it is on the earlier side of the range of dates the Christian religious holiday can fall on (March 22 to April 25). ... April 15: Tax Day. Sunday, May 5 ...
April (30 days), from Latin mēnsis Aprīlis, of uncertain meaning [61] but usually derived from some form of the verb aperire ("to open") [q] or the name of the goddess Aphrodite [59] [r] May (31 days), from Latin mēnsis Māius, "Month of Maia", [65] a Roman vegetation goddess [59] whose name is cognate with Latin magnus ("great") [65] and ...
The day-year principle was partially employed by Jews [7] as seen in Daniel 9:24–27, Ezekiel 4:4-7 [8] and in the early church. [9] It was first used in Christian exposition in 380 AD by Ticonius, who interpreted the three and a half days of Revelation 11:9 as three and a half years, writing 'three days and a half; that is, three years and six months' ('dies tres et dimidium; id est annos ...
The 12/31/23 portal is a unique cosmic event taking place on the last day of 2023. Reading the date 12/31/23 reveals a sequential number that reads the same forward and backward.
The last day of April was the pridie Kalendas Maias, [11] "day before the Kalends of May". Roman counting was inclusive ; April 9 was ante diem V Idūs Aprilis , "the 5th day before the Ides of April," usually abbreviated a.d. V Id. Apr. (or with the a.d. omitted altogether); April 23 was IX Kal. Mai. , "the 9th day before the Kalends of May ...