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The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months, all thirty days long, and five or six epagomenal days, which form a thirteenth month. [2] The Ethiopian months begin on the same days as those of the Coptic calendar, but their names are in Ge'ez. A sixth epagomenal day is added every four years, without exception, on 29 August of the Julian calendar ...
The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian calendar, is a liturgical calendar used by the Coptic Catholic Church and also used by the farming populace in Egypt. It was used for fiscal purposes in Egypt until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar on 11 September 1875 (1st Thout 1592 AM). [1] This calendar is based on the ancient Egyptian ...
Thomas (not the Apostle) 10th. Kidus Meskel (Feast of the Holy Cross) 11th. Hanna we Iyachew (St Anne and St. Joachim, parents of the Holy Virgin Mary) and Fasilides. 12th. Michael the Archangel, Samuel, and Yared. 13th. Feast of Igziabher Ab (God the Father) and Raphael the Archangel.
A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. [1] For example, it is the year 2024 as per the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).
Fasika. Fasika (Ge'ez: ፋሲካ, sometimes transcribed as Fasica; [ultimately from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (paskha)] [1] is the Ge'ez, Amharic, [2] and Tigrinya word for Easter, also called Tensae (Ge'ez: ትንሣኤ, "to rise"). In Ethiopia, the most prominent and longstanding religion has been the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (then ...
28 September (leap year) 2024 date. 27 September. Frequency. Annual. Meskel (Ge'ez: መስቀል, romanized: Mesk’el) is an Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church holiday that commemorates the discovery of the True Cross by the Roman Empress Saint Helena of Constantinople in the fourth century. Meskel is celebrated by Oriental ...
Ethiopian Christmas (Amharic: ገና[a]; Oromo: Ayaana; Tigrinya: ልደት[b]) is a holiday celebrated by the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches, as well as Protestant and Catholic denominations in Ethiopia, on 7 January (Tahsas 29 in the Ethiopian calendar). One of the district features of Ethiopian Christmas is a traditional ...
The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days. These twelve months were initially numbered within ...