12th Greatest Holidays

Greatest Holidays

• Holy Easter
• Palm Sunday – Glorious Enter to Jerusalem, on the sixth Sunday of Lent
• Ascension Day, 40th day after Easter
• Holy Trinity Day, Pentecost, 50th day after Easter

Intransitive Holidays (Gr./Jul. Calendar)

• Epiphany (6/19 January)
• Feast of Presentation of the Christ to Temple (2/15 February)
• Annunciation (25 March/ 7 April)
• Transfiguration Day (6/19 August)
• Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (15/28 August)
• Nativity of the Blessed Virgin (8/21 September)
• Exaltation of the Cross (14/27 September)
• Feast of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin (21 November/4 December)
• The Nativity (25 December/7 January)

Great Holydays

• St. Basil the Great and Candlemas Day (1/14 January)
• Apostolic Equal St. Mother Nino’s Day (14/27 January)
• Nativity of St. John the Baptist (24 June/7 July)
• St. Apostle Peter and St. Apostle Paul’s Day (29 June/12 July)
• Beheaded of St. John the Baptist (29 August/11 September)
• Mtskhetoba-Svetitskhovloba – Holy Mother Virgin’s Covering (1 October/14 October; 30 June/13 July)

Transitive Holidays

• Blessed Father Shio Mgvimeli – Shrovetide Thursday
• Great Martyr Theodore Tyron – First Saturday of Lent
• St. Grigol of Palama – Second Sunday of Lent
• Reverend John Clemax – Fourth Sunday of Lent
• Reverend Mother Mary of Egypt – Fifth Sunday of Lent
• Arisen of Righteous Lazar, Praise and Glory to the Georgian Language – Saturday before Palm Sunday
• Chrism-keeper Mothers – Third Sunday after Easter
• Blessed Pious Queen Tamar’s Day – Chrism-Keeper Mothers Sunday and on 1/14 May
• Righteous Tibathious – Fourth Sunday after Easter
• Reverend Dodo of Gareji – Wednesday after Pentecost
• Reverend David of Gareji – Thursday after Pentecost
• All Saints – Sunday after Pentecost

Church Tribute Days

• Revival of Autocephaly of Georgian Orthodox Church (1917) (12/25 March)
• Enthronization Day of Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II (1977) (12/25 December)
• Angel’s Day of His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos Patriarch Ilia II (20 July/2 August)
• Birthday of His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos Patriarch Ilia II (22 December/4 January)