[Editor: This item was published in the Victorian Almanac for 1870 (Melbourne, Vic.), 1869.]
Fixed and movable festivals, &c.
Epiphany ………. Jan. 6
Septuagesima Sunday ………. Feb. 13
Sexagesima Sunday ………. Feb. 20
Quinquagesima — Shrove Sunday ………. Feb. 27
Shrove Tuesday ………. Mar. 1
Ash Wednesday ………. Mar. 2
Quadragesima Sunday ………. Mar. 6
Annunciation — Lady Day ………. Mar. 25
Palm Sunday ………. April 10
Good Friday ………. April 15
EASTER SUNDAY ………. April 17
Low Sunday ………. April 24
Rogation Sunday ………. May 22
Ascension — Holy Thursday ………. May 26
Pentecost — Whit Sunday ………. June 5
Trinity Sunday ………. June 12
Corpus Christi ………. June 16
First Sunday in Advent ………. Nov. 27
Christmas Day ………. Dec. 25
St. Valentine ………. Feb. 14
St. David ………. Mar. 1
St. Patrick ………. Mar. 17
St. George ………. April 23
St. John the Baptist ………. June 25
St. Swithin ………. July 14
St. Bartholomew’s Day ………. Aug. 21
St. Luke the Evangelist ………. Oct. 18
All Saints’ Day ………. Nov. 4
St. Andrew ………. Nov. 30
St. Thomas ………. Dec. 21
Birth of Queen Victoria ………. May 24
Accession of Queen Victoria ………. June 20
Separation Day ………. July 1
Michaelmas Day ………. Sep. 29
Birth of Prince of Wales ………. Nov. 9
Source:
Victorian Almanac for 1870, Melbourne (Vic.): Mason, Firth & Co., [1869], p. 34
Editor’s notes:
Whilst the almanac does not give a date of publication, it was published in 1869. The publication of the 1870 almanac was mentioned in The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 19 October 1869, p. 5.
For the purposes of this post, each leader (multiple dots) has been rendered as a leader of ten dots.
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