December Religious Festivals and Dates

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By Vexen Crabtree 2023

#december #hinduism #islam #judaism #paganism

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Note that some traditions have festivals and dates that start at sundown or in the evening of the night before, such as (Jewish, Muslim and some Pagan events). There are no Hindu dates on these calendars yet, due to the complexity & multiplicity of all the various calendars in use. Likewise, there are no south-east Asian calendar dates.

Date	Event	Notes
Dec 1st Friday
Dec 2nd Saturday
Dec 3rd Sunday
Dec 4th Monday
Dec 5th Tuesday
Dec 6th Wednesday
Dec 7th Thursday
Dec 8th Friday (8 days) (this year)	Hanukah	Judaism. For the day the Maccabee army defeated a Syrian Greek army.
Dec 8th Friday (fixed)	Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary	Christianity (Catholic). The annual declaration by Catholics that Jesus' mother was herself born free from Original Sin.
Dec 9th Saturday
Dec 10th Sunday (always on a Sun)	Advent Sunday	Christianity (Western churches). Four Sundays before Christmas. Candles are lit each Sunday for the end of the period of the sun's weakness. Historically developed from: Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)
Dec 11st Monday
Dec 12nd Tuesday (this year)	Feast of Masá'il (Questions)	Bahá'í Faith.
Dec 13rd Wednesday
Dec 14th Thursday
Dec 15th Friday
Dec 16th Saturday
Dec 17th Sunday
Dec 18th Monday
Dec 19th Tuesday (fixed)	The Feast of Saint Nicholas, the Bishop of Myra in Lycia	Christianity (Orthodox Churches).
Dec 20th Wednesday (this year)	Laba Festival (Labajie)	Chinese religion. On the 8th day of La, the 12th month of Chinese calendar.
Dec 21st Thursday (this year)	Martyrdom of Ajit Singh and Jujhar Singh	Sikhism. The two elder sons of Guru Gobind Singh.
Dec 21st Thursday (12 days) (fixed)	Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)	Paganism. The Winter Solstice (the shortest day of the year) in the Northern Hemisphere, the Summer Solstice in the Southern. Twelve days long, for the twelve zodiacs.
Dec 22nd Friday
Dec 23rd Saturday
Dec 24th Sunday
Dec 25th Monday (this year)	Zaratosht No Diso	Zoroastrianism. Date can vary due to balancing between the solar Hijri calendar of Iran and the Fasli calendar. The death of prophet Zoroaster.
Dec 25th Monday (fixed)	Nativity	Christianity. Previously celebrated in spring, the birth of Jesus was moved in the 4th century to merge it with popular pagan celebrations on the 25th.
Dec 25th Monday (fixed)	Christmas Day	Rastafarian (Western churches). Historically developed from: Q4 Solstice (Yuletide)
Dec 26th Tuesday
Dec 27th Wednesday
Dec 28th Thursday
Dec 29th Friday (this year)	Feast of Tammuz	Judaism. Although the hebrew day starts in the evening, this fast starts the morning after and continues until nightfall. To remember the breach of Jerusalem's walls by Romans (69CE). A 3-week period also covers the destruction of the first Jewish Temple (586BCE), the Roman-Jewish war of 66CE & the 2nd temple's destruction.
Dec 30th Saturday
Dec 31st Sunday (this year)	Feast of Sharaf (Honor)	Bahá'í Faith.