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Mon. 2/16
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All day
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President's Day
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All day
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Alberta Family Day
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Sun. 2/22
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All day
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Washington's Birthday
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Mon. 2/23
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All day
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Shrove Monday
Monday before Ash Wednesday. Also called Rose Monday. In Denmark, today is calledFastelavn. In Germany and Austria today coincides with Fasching (or Feast of Fools).
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Tue. 2/24
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All day
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Shrove Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
Today is the last day of Shrovetide, and a time of merrymaking before Lent. Also known as Mardi Gras.
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Wed. 2/25
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All day
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Ash Wednesday
46 days before Easter. The Day of Ashes, is the first day of Lent, occuring forty days before Easter not counting Sundays. The ancient custom on this day is for the faithful to receive on the forehead the sign of a cross marked with blessed ashes. The palms from the previous Palm Sunday are burned and the ashes are blessed for the ceremony before the Mass.
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Sun. 2/29
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All day
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Lent: first sunday
Lent is the penitential season preceding Easter, observed with forty days of fast in memory of Christ's forty days of fast in the desert. Lent consists of forty weekdays and six Sundays. The name is derived from the Middle English Lente, and refers to the lengthening of the daylight hours.
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Mon. 3/1
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All day
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St. David's Day
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Tue. 3/2
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All day
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Yom Ashura, Muharram 10
Celebrates Noah leaving the ark on Mount Ararat.
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Wed. 3/3
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All day
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Ash Wednesday
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Mon. 3/8
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All day
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Imamat Day, Muharram 16
Observed by Ismaili (Shiite) Moslems
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Wed. 3/17
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All day
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St. Patrick's Day
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All day
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St. Patrick's Day (N. Ireland)
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Thu. 3/25
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All day
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Annunciation
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Sun. 3/28
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All day
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British Summer Time
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Thu. 4/1
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All day
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April Fool's Day
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Sun. 4/4
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All day
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Daylight Saving Time Begins
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Sun. 4/4
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Sun. 4/11
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All day
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Holy week
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Sun. 4/4
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All day
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Palm Sunday
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Thu. 4/8
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All day
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Thursday before Easter
Commemorates Christ's Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet on that day.
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