Church Calendar, St. Basil's Syriac Orthodox Church, Cleveland, Ohio

	January 2011
1	New Year Day/ Circumcision of Lord
6	Denho (Epiphany)
7	St. John the Baptist
8	St. Stephen, chief among the deacons and first of the martyrs
	February 2011
2	Presentation at the Temple
3	Mor Barsawmo (c. 457), the chief among mourners
13	St. Ignatius Elias III - Manjinikkara
14	Fast of Nineveh begins (3-day Lent)
15	Tuesday of the Fast of Nineveh
16	Prophet Jonah; Wednesday of the Fast of Nineveh
17	Thursday of the Fast of Nineveh
20	Kohne - Departed priests
24	Apostle Matthew, the Evangelist
27	Aneede - All Departed
	March 2011
6	Kothne, Sunday of the feast of Cana (Pethratha)
7	Great Lent begins
9	Forty Martyrs of Sebastia
13	Sunday of the leper
20	Sunday of the paralytic
25	Annunciation to Virgin Mary
27	Sunday of the Canaanite woman
30	Mid-Lent, Holy Cross
	April 2011
3	Sunday of the hunch-back woman
10	Sunday of the healing of the blind man
15	Fortieth Friday
16	Raising Lazarus
17	Palm Sunday
18	Holy Week Begins; The lights (Order of the entrance into heaven, the parable of the ten virgins)
21	Passover (Pesho - Maundy Thursday)
22	Good Friday (Veneration of the Cross, Friday of the Week of Passion)
23	Saturday of Good Tidings; St. George the Martyr
24	Easter; Resurrection
25	St. Mark the Evangelist
27	Mor Gregorius `Abd al-Jaleel of Jerusalem (St. Abdul Jaleel ), North Parur (1671)
29	Confessors
	May 2011
8	Apostle John, the Evangelist
10	St. Simon, the Disciple
20	Four Evangelists, Fathers of the three Holy Synods
	June 2011
2	Ascension
5	Sunday before Pentecost
11	St. Bartholomew, the disciple
12	Pentecost
17	Golden Friday
24	Birth of St. John the Baptist
26	Apostle's Fast Begins
29	Apostle's Fast Ends/ Apostles Peter and Paul (AD 67)
30	12 Apostles
	July 2011
3	Apostle Thomas, remains transferred to Edessa (AD 394)
5	Seventy-two disciples
	August 2011
6	Transfiguration
10	Shunoyo Lent Begins
15	Shunoyo (Assumption) /Lent Ends
29	Beheading of St. John the Baptist
	September 2011
1	8 Day Lent (ettu nombu) begins (optional Lent)
8	Birth of Virgin Mary; 8 Day Lent Ends
14	Feast of Sleebo (cross); Patriarchal day, Consecration of Patriarch H.H. Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
	October 2011
2	Maphryono St. Baselius Yaldo (St. Baselios Yeldho), Kothamangalam (1685) - (Patron Saint of Baselios Church, Ohio)
18	St. Luke the Evangelist
30	Koodosh Eetho - Consecration of the Church, Beginning of the liturgical calendar year
	November 2011
1	All Saints Day (All Saints and Martyrs)
2	St. Gregorios of Parumala (1902)
6	Hoodosh Eetho - Renewal of the Church
13	Annunciation to Zachariah
20	Annunciation to St. Mary
21	Entrance of Virgin Mary into the Temple
24	Thanksgiving Day
27	St. Mary visits Elizabeth
	December 2011
1	Twenty Five Day Lent begins
4	Birth of John the Baptist
11	Annunciation (Revelation) to Joseph
15	Beginning of Advent
18	Sunday before Christmas; St. Thomas wounded by the spear
21	Martyrdom of St. Thomas (AD 72)
25	Christmas Day (Yeldho)
26	Lullabies (Glorification of the Mother of God)
27	Slaughter of the Holy Infants

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Church Calendar

St. Basil's Syriac Orthodox Church, Ohio