Religious Holidays - which religion has the most?

[mrbigstuff]

I was asked about religious holidays and my curiosity was piqued since I do not know much about the subject. I found information on school holidays (allowable absences) but the question is really which religion recognizes the most days per calendar year in some official capacity (Gregorian calendar, I guess).

Any theology majors who can chime in?

[Ombligo]

The Church of the Civil Servent...

I'm pretty sure they have 366 days per year (367 in leap years)

[rgG]

My guess would be the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster," but that would just be a guess on my part.

[Chupa Chupa]

I don't know world-wide, but around the DC area the Order of the Blessed Terrapinians take off every Th-Sun and half of Monday.

[lafinfil]

[quote rgG]My guess would be the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster," but that would just be a guess on my part.
I think you're right because every Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day !

[Craig]

Seems to me that Hindus always have something to party about. I guess when you have a lot of gods, there are a lot of birthdays to celebrate.


Craig

[MacMagus]

Christianity certainly makes a run for it.

There's a holiday for every significant event attributed to Jesus, plus holidays for every saint and every significant event in every saint's life, historical celebrations, seasonal holidays like Advent and pre-holiday holidays like Lent.

I subscribed to an iCal calendar of Christian holidays and there's at least 3 each week. 'Next one is the second "Feast of the Guardian Angels" on Tuesday (I guess the first feast on Sept 27th wasn't such a hit?).

[mrbigstuff]

MacMagus, thanks. Do you have a link to the iCal widget or what-have-you?

Craig, that was also my first reaction, but maybe not true..?

[MacMagus]

> Do you have a link to the iCal widget or what-have-you?

I don't think that it's available anymore. I just tried to get to the site and it's giving me a "server unavailable" message. I had auto-refresh off, so I don't know how long it's been like that.

Apple's Christian holidays calendar only has about a third of the entries, but it seems like a nice start.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ica...idays.html

This Wikipedia article hits the big holidays...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year

This Wikipedia article on Eastern Orthodox Christian feasts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Ort...l_calendar

...led me to this calendar, which is even more populated than the iCal calendar:
http://www.goarch.org/access/calendar/calendar.asp

[Carnos Jax]

Yeah, I was about to say the Orthodox Church as well, seems that some of my relatives are always absorving some kind of lent or other.