[Remind-Fans] Good Friday and Easter events in Remind

[John Abreau]

On Wed, March 14, 2007 12:03 am, David Rogers said:

> 1. These holidays are not different in Canada from what they are anywhere
> else. The only thing to watch out for is that the Orthodox calculate their
> holidays differently from most others, so Orthodox Easter is (usually) a
> different Sunday. Therefore, if you need to know the date of Orthodox
> Easter, you would use a different calculation.
>
> 2. Good Friday is simply the Friday directly preceding Easter. No other
> specifications are necessary.
>

I remember examining the issue of non-Gregorian holidays back in
college, long ago. I didn't look at the Orthodox dates, but I found
that the regular Catholic holidays could each be defined as a fixed
numbers of days before or after Easter, and I think the Hebrew
holidays could similarly be defined relative to Passover. I would
imagine the same probably applies to the Orthodox holidays.

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