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Definition of Church calendar
1. Noun. A calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals.
Generic synonyms: Gregorian Calendar, New Style Calendar
Terms within: Holy Week, Passion Week, Advent, Shrovetide, Lent, Lententide, Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whitweek
Lexicographical Neighbors of Church Calendar
Literary usage of Church calendar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To take an example: the Epact of 1696 (its Golden Number being 6) is XXVI, and
since this Epact is found opposite 4 February in the church calendar we know ..."
2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1901)
"American church calendar of the festivals and fasts of the church year, for 1901.
net 25c. '(JO. Jacobs. American Climatological Association. ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Certainly St. -Gris is mentioned in no church calendar. He may have been an
imaginary saint, invented as the patron of drunkards, as St.-Lâche was invented ..."
4. A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Professor by Richard Sims (1856)
"ROMAN AND church calendar Calend. Jan.. . IV. Nonat . III. Nonas . Prid. Non.
Jan. Nona Jan. . . VIII. Idus . VII. Idus . VI. Idm . V. Om IV. Idus . III. ..."
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