Chronos, Kairos and Aion are the three deities of time, events and epic destinies. Here is the multi-religious and multicultural calendar!
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The schedule in brief from D-2 to D+5
- May 9, 2024, : Gudbrandsdal Gudrod
- May 11, 2024: Saint Cyril and Methodius
- May 11, 2024: Ice Saints
- May 15, 2024: Candle Festival
- May 16, 2024, : Saint Brendan
- May 16, 2024, : Saint Honoré
The complete interactive calendar
Holidays of the month
| Mymonday | Killtuesday | Wednesdaywednesday | ThuThursday | Frifriday | Satsaturday | Sunsunday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
April 29, 2024 |
April 30, 2024(1 event) April 30, 2024  Today, Germanic and Saxon peoples celebrate Walpurgis Night. Saint Walpurga is said to have protected the German peoples from the plague, rabies, whooping cough and witches. This festival dates back to pre-Christian times and is said to be close to the Celtic festival Beltaine. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #April 30 #walpurgis |
May 1, 2024(6 events) May 1, 2024  Today, the Bretons are laying the Barrin ar mae (May branch). If today the May branch is considered more of a good luck charm, it was once hung in strategic places on the farm, such as the henhouse, the oven, the stable, in order to ward off bad luck. The entrances to the fields also had their may, in order to ensure a good harvest and to repel crop disease. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 1 #BarrinArMae #Brittany May 1, 2024  On this day, the Celts celebrated Beltaine. It marks the return of the clear season or luminous season. The main ritual of Beltaine consists of fires lit by druids where livestock passed so that they would be protected from epidemics for the coming year. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #1May #beltaine May 1, 2024  Today, the Welsh celebrate Calan Mai, Calan Haf or Cyntefin. It marks the start of summer, the inhabitants celebrate around bonfires, maypoles and songs. Some of its traditions parallel the Gaelic May Day festival Beltaine and other May Day traditions in Europe. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #1May #CalanMay #Cynteend #Wales May 1, 2024  Today, Mayades take place in the Landes de Gascognes. A may (pine pole which is flowered/decorated, probably from the Beltane Celtic tradition) is planted on the night of April 30. On May Day, all kinds of celebrations take place, the traditions of which vary from one city to another. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #1May #Gascognes #Mayade #France May 1, 2024  Today, the French treat themselves to May lily of the valley. The symbolism of the return of spring linked to this flower has its roots in Celtic traditions as well as Roman ceremonies performed in honor of Flora, goddess of flowers. The tradition of lily of the valley in May was formalized in 1561 by Charles IX who requested that the ladies of the court receive a lucky sprig every May 1st. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 1 #Muguet #CharlesIX May 1, 2024  Today, Christians celebrate Saint Jeremiah (May Yahweh arise). He is the second of the four great prophets, a Judaic prophet of the Tanakh and the Old Testament and the presumed author (without certainty) of the Book of Jeremiah. He is a contemporary of one of the two minor prophets Zephaniah. Jeremiah made many prophecies for which he was brutalized, exiled or put in prison. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 1 #Jeremiah #Christianity #Tanakh | May 2, 2024 |
May 3, 2024(2 events) May 3, 2024  Today in El Salvador is the Day of the Cross. Families decorate a Jiote cross with fruits and paper ornaments. This Salvadoran tradition dates back to colonial times and marks the beginning of the rainy or winter season in the country. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #salvador #crossday #3may May 3, 2024  Today, Christians celebrate Saint Philip (the apostle, not the evangelist). He is one of the twelve apostles of the New Testament. He preached in Greece, Syria and Asia Minor. James the Less has an unclear identity (son of Alphaeus; brother of Jesus, cousin of Jesus?), he became head of the Church of Jerusalem and played a very important role in the beginnings of the Judeo-Christian religion. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #3May #SaintPhilippe #SaintJacques #Christianity |
May 4, 2024(1 event) May 4, 2024  Today, Christians celebrate Saint Florian (Florian of Lorch). He is said to have saved a village from a fire by praying and symbolically having a bucket of water thrown at him to put it out; this is why it is associated with firefighters and all those who protect against fire, including chimney sweeps. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #4May #SaintFlorian #Christianity | May 5, 2024 |
May 6, 2024 | May 7, 2024 |
May 8, 2024(2 events) May 8, 2024  Today, in Orléans (France), the Johannine Festivals take place in honor of the deliverance, on May 8, 1429, by Joan of Arc of the city then besieged by the English. It is the occasion for a grand parade and a mass in the presence of high-ranking personalities. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #8May #JeanneDArc #Orléans May 8, 2024  Today, the people of Benelux celebrate Iris Day. An emblematic flower of Dutch know-how, whether in floral manipulation, perfume and even in the arts as evidenced by the love of this flower by great masters like Vincent Van Gogh, this day is an opportunity to pay tribute to the emblematic flower of the wealth and power of the Orange Republic. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #8May #Netherlands #Belgium #Iris |
May 9, 2024(1 event) May 9, 2024  Today, the Asatrus commemorate Gudbrandsdal Gudrod, known as the martyr. He was one of the five Novegian kings who opposed the forced Christianization by Saint Olaf in 1018. Warned of their plan, he took them prisoner, Olaf took possession of their kingdoms and founded the Kingdom of Norway. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #9May #Norway #SaintOlaf #Gudrod | May 10, 2024 |
May 11, 2024(2 events) May 11, 2024  Today the Orthodox celebrate the Synaxis of Saint Cyril and Methodius. These two brothers evangelized the Slavic peoples of Central Europe and are nicknamed the apostles of the Slavs. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 11 #cyril #methodius May 11, 2024  Today and for 3 days, Europeans celebrate the Ice Saints. These saints were invoked by farmers and gardeners to anticipate the effect of a drop in temperature on crops, which could be observed during this period and which caused frost (phenomenon of the red moon). Once this period had passed, frost was no longer to be feared. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 11 #May 12 #May 13 #SaintMamer #SaintPancrace #SaintServais | May 12, 2024 |
May 13, 2024 | May 14, 2024 |
May 15, 2024(1 event) May 15, 2024  Today is the Candle Festival in Umbria and Perugia (Italy). Tradition has it that it is a celebration dedicated to Sant'Ubaldo Baldassini, citizen, bishop and patron of Gubbio. This festival would be the commemoration of a gift of wax that the medieval corporations of the city offered to the patron saint. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 15 #festadeiceri #ombria #Perouse |
May 16, 2024(2 events) May 16, 2024  Today, the Irish commemorate Saint Brendan, nicknamed the navigator. The account of his journey is linked to an Irish tradition of initiatory journeys containing obligatory passages, the imrama. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #ireland #May 16 #saintbrendan May 16, 2024  Today, Christians celebrate Saint Honoré of Amiens. Patron saint of bakers and of Picardy, his legend comes from a donation from a baker to build a chapel for the bishop. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Christianity #Honore #May 16 | May 17, 2024 | May 18, 2024 |
May 19, 2024(2 events) May 19, 2024  Today, Christians celebrate Pentecost. It celebrates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the fiftieth day from Easter on a group of disciples of Jesus of Nazareth, including the Twelve Apostles. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Pentecost May 19, 2024  Today, the Bretons celebrate Saint Yves or Gouel Erwann. He is the patron saint of sailors, lawyers and jurists in Brittany. Saint-Yves is at the origin of the Brittany festival. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 19 #SaintYves #GouelErwann #Bretagne |
May 20, 2024 | May 21, 2024 |
May 22, 2024(1 event) May 22, 2024  Today, Christians commemorate Augustine I. This Roman emperor put an end to the Christian persecutions by the edict of Milan. He also created the capital of Constantinople and solidified the borders against the Germans. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 22 #ConstantinI #Constantinople #EditFromMilan |
May 23, 2024(1 event) May 23, 2024  Today, Vlach Day takes place in Romania. This people, probably of Thracian or Illyrian origin, has been Romanized. This is why they speak a Romance language unlike all neighboring peoples. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 23 1TP5Vlach #romania | May 24, 2024 |
May 25, 2024(1 event) May 25, 2024  Today, Jews celebrate Lag BaOmer. The holiday is mentioned for the first time in medieval rabbinical literature which links it to Rabbi Akiva. A tradition strongly associates him with Rabbi Shimon bar Yohaï, legendary author of the Zohar, while Zionism celebrates the valor of Shimon bar Kokhba. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #18iyar #LagBaOmer #RabbiShimon #Judaism | May 26, 2024 |
May 27, 2024 | May 28, 2024 | May 29, 2024 |
May 30, 2024(1 event) May 30, 2024  Today, Christians celebrate Corpus Christi or Corpus Christi. It is an essentially Catholic religious holiday designated on the Thursday following Trinity, that is to say sixty days after Easter, or the Sunday after in certain countries such as France. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Christianity #FeastGod #CorpusChristi |
May 31, 2024(1 event) May 31, 2024  Today, Christians celebrate the visitation of the Virgin Mary. The feast of the Visitation commemorates an episode from the Gospel according to Luke: the visit that Mary, pregnant with Christ, pays to her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Virgin Mary #May 31 | June 1, 2024 | June 2, 2024 |
Multicultural and multi-religious almanac
An almanac is a calendar showing the main dates of the calendar, the religious holidays, bearing ephemerides such as the phases of the moon or the duration of the days (lunar and solar calendars).
A calendar is a system for marking dates according to time. Such a system was invented by men to divide and organize time over long periods. The observation of the periodic phenomena of the environment in which they lived — such as the daily movement of the shadow, the return of the seasons or the lunar cycle — served as the first references for organizing the agricultural, social and religious life of societies.
The calendar used today in most of the world is the Gregorian calendar. In everyday language, an ephemeris designates what happens daily; the ephemeris of the day is the list of the significant events of this day.
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