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St Nicholas (spring)

St Nicholas (spring) 2027 is on 22 May 2027 · Saturday · in 236 days

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  • the Nativity Fast1 January – 6 January
  • the season after Pentecost7 January – 14 March
  • Great Lent15 March – 24 April
  • Holy Week25 April – 1 May
  • the Pentecostarion (Pascha to Pentecost)2 May – 20 June
  • the season after Pentecost21 June – 27 June
  • the Apostles’ Fast28 June – 11 July
  • the season after Pentecost12 July – 13 August
  • the Dormition Fast14 August – 27 August
  • the season after Pentecost28 August – 27 November
  • the Nativity Fast28 November – 31 December

How the date is found

St Nicholas (spring) is kept on 9 May of the Julian calendar, which the Russian, Serbian, Georgian and Jerusalem churches follow; on the civil calendar that is thirteen days later until 2100.

Every year

YearDateDay
202422 May 2024Wednesday
202522 May 2025Thursday
202622 May 2026Friday
202722 May 2027Saturday
202822 May 2028Monday
202922 May 2029Tuesday
203022 May 2030Wednesday
203122 May 2031Thursday
203222 May 2032Saturday

Easter: Meeus/Jones/Butcher and Meeus’s Julian algorithm (Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms, 1991). Feast offsets as in the General Roman Calendar and the Orthodox Triodion/Pentecostarion.