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2008
Major Feasts and Commemoration Days
Major Feasts and Commemoration Days of the Armenian Church
Year 2008
Tabernacle Feast Days listed in BOLD and Italics
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listing for that month
January
6 Holy Nativity and Theophany of Our Lord Jesus Christ
13 Naming Day of Our Lord
19 Birth of St. John the Forerunner (the Baptist)
21 Commemoration Day of St. Sergius (Sarkis)
29 Commemoration Day of Sts. Leontius (Ghevont the priest)
31 Commemoration Day of Sts. Vartanants
February
3 Eve of the Great Fast of Lent (Great Paregentan)
14 Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ to the Temple (Diarntarach)
March
8 Commitment of St. Gregory the Illuminator to the Pit
15 Commemoration Day of the Resurrection of Lazarus
16 Palm Sunday
23 Easter Sunday (The Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ)
April
20 Appearance of the Holy Cross
May
1 Ascension Day (Hampartsum)
11 Pentecost (Hokekalust)
19 Commemoration Day of St. Hripsime
20 Commemoration Day of St. Gayane
24 Deliverance of St. Gregory the Illuminator from the Pit
25 Feast of Holy Etchmiadzin
June
1 Discovery of the Relics of St. Gregory the Illuminator
12 Commemoration Day of St. Sahag and St. Mesrob
29 Transfiguration of Our Lord (Vartevar)
July
August
16 Feast of Holy "Shoghagat"
17 Assumption of the Holy Mother of God (Verapokhum)
26 Commemoration Day of Sts Joachim and Anna
September
14 Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Khatchverats)
27 Commemoration Day of St. George (Kevork)
28 Feast of the Holy Cross of Varak
October
11 Feast of the Holy Translators
26 Discovery of the Holy Cross
November
8 Commemoration Day of the Holy Archangels
29 Commemoration Day of Sts. Thaddeus and Bartholomew
December
13 Commemoration Day of St. James (Hagop)
23 Commemoration Day of St. David the Prophet
25 Commemoration Day of St. Stephen the Protomartyr
27 Commemoration Day of Sts. Peter and Paul
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