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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Draba
Species:	D. reptans
Binomial name
Draba reptans

2018 dates, Western

First Sunday of the year, unless the Sunday falls on January 1, 6, or 7, then January 2: January 2

• Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Roman Catholicism, removed post-1969, still celebrated by some denominations)

Sunday after January 6: January 7

• Baptism of the Lord (Roman Catholic, Anglicanism Lutheran)
• Plough Sunday (England)

Monday after January 6: January 8

• Baptism of the Lord – (Western Christianity in countries where Epiphany is celebrated on January 7 or 8)
• Plough Monday (England)

Third Sunday in January: January 21

• Feast of the Santo Niño – (Roman Catholic, Philippines)

9th Sunday before Easter in Western Christianity: January 28

• Septuagesima Sunday

Second Sunday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 4

• Sexagesima

Last Thursday before Lent(Western Christianity): February 8

• Fat Thursday

Saturday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 10

• Festum Ovorum (University of Oxford)

Sunday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 11

• Quinquagesima

Monday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity) : February 12

• Shrove Monday
  • Fastelavn (Denmark/Norway)
  • Nickanan Night (Cornwall)
  • Rosenmontag (Germany)

Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity) - February 13

• Shrove Tuesday
  • Fastnacht (Pennsylvania Dutch)
  • Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ
  • Fettisdagen (Sweden)
  • Laskiainen (Finland, Finnish-Americans)
  • Mardi Gras
  • National Pancake Day (Netherlands)
  • Powder Day (Tolox, Spain)
  • Užgavėnės (Lithuania)

46 days before Easter (Western Christianity) - February 14

• Ash Wednesday/Lent
  • National No Smoking Day (Ireland)

Friday after Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity) - February 15

• Feast of the Crown of Thorns

First Sunday of Lent in (Western Christianity) - February 18

• People's Sunday (Żabbar, Malta)
• Quadragesima Sunday

Fourth Sunday of Western Lent: March 11

• Laetare Sunday
• Mothering Sunday
• Pretzel Sunday (Luxembourg)

Fifth Sunday of Western Lent: March 18

• Passion Sunday (no longer officially celebrated by Roman Catholic church, still celebrated by other denominations)

Week of Sunday before Easter: March 25-31

• Holy Week
  • Palm Sunday: March 25
    • World Youth Day (Roman Catholic), celebrated on Palm Sunday
  • Holy Monday: March 26
  • Holy Tuesday: March 27
  • Holy Wednesday: March 28
  • Maundy Thursday: March 29
  • Good Friday: March 30
  • Holy Saturday: March 31

Easter Week

• Earth Day Sunday – (some Protestant denominations, Sunday before Earth Day)
• Easter: April 16 (Eastertide begins)
  • Aberri Eguna (Basque)
  • Lieldienas (Latvia)
• Easter Monday:
  • Family Day (South Africa)
  • Śmigus-Dyngus, regional variant of Easter Monday (Poland, Ukraine)
• Easter Tuesday: Public holiday in Tasmania.
• Easter Wednesday:
  • Saint Gregory's Day (Żejtun, Malta)
• Easter Thursday:
• Easter Friday:
• Easter Saturday:
• Divine Mercy Sunday: (Sunday after Easter)
• Jubilate Sunday: (Sunday after Divine Mercy Sunday)
• Hocktide:
• Good Shepherd Sunday: (Third Sunday after Easter)
• Store Bededag: (Fourth Friday after Easter in Denmark)
• Cantate Sunday: (Fourth Sunday after Easter Day)
• Minor Rogation days:
• Feast of the Ascension:
  • Father's Day (Germany)
  • Festa della Sensa (Venice)
  • Global Day of Prayer
  • Sheep Festival (Cameroon)
• Pentecost begins:
  • Whitsun:
• Whit Monday:
  • Azores Day (Portugal)
• Whit Tuesday:
• Feast of Christ the Priest: June 8 (first Thursday after start of Pentecost)
• Whit Friday: (North West England)
• Trinity Sunday:
• Corpus Christi:
• Lajkonik: (Kraków, Poland)
• Feast of the Sacred Heart:
• Petertide (Anglican): (Sunday nearest to June 29)
• Sea Sunday: (second Sunday in July)
• World Youth Day: Next observance is in 2019 (Roman Catholicism)
• Reek Sunday (Ireland): (last Sunday in July)
• Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels: (Roman Catholic Church, in most locations, first Sunday in September by special dispensation)
• Jeûne genevois Geneva, Switzerland: (Thursday following the first Sunday of September)
• Feast of Sts Cosmas and Damian (Italian-American) – (weekend after Labor Day)
• Education Sunday – (second Sunday of September)
• Racial Justice Sunday (British Churches) – (second Sunday of September)
• Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer (Switzerland) – (third Sunday of September)
• Lundi du Jeûne: (Vaud, Switzerland) – (Monday after third Sunday)
• Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem – (First Sunday in October, Pentecostal Christians)
• World Communion Sunday – (First Sunday in October)
• White Sunday – (Second Sunday in October, Tonga and Samoa)
• World Mission Sunday – (Second to last Sunday of October)
• Feast of Christ the King – (final Sunday of October, Tridentine Mass only)
• All Saint's Day (Saturday between October 31 – November 6 Finland and Sweden only)
• Volkstrauertag – (Germany, second Sunday before Advent)
• Buß- und Bettag – (Germany, Second Wednesday before the First Advent)
• Feast of Christ the King – (Non Tridentine Mass, Sunday before the first Sunday of Advent/ 28 days before the fourth Sunday of Advent)
• Stir-up Sunday (Anglican Church) – (Sunday before the first Sunday of Advent)
• Totensonntag – (Mainly Lutheran, Sunday before the first Sunday of Advent)
• Gospel Day: (Marshall Islands, first Friday in December)
• Advent Sunday: Start of Advent – (Fourth Sunday before Christmas Day)
• Chalica (Unitarian Universalism): D
• Detinjci (Serbia): (Sunday two weeks before Christmas Day)
• Gaudete Sunday: (Third cardinal of Advent)
• Blue Christmas – (date of Winter Solstice)
• Chewidden Thursday (Cornwall) (Thursday of the last full week before Christmas)
• National Regifting Day (secular, United States) (Last Thursday before Christmas)
• Black Friday (partying) (secular, United Kingdom) – (Last Friday before Christmas)
• Super Saturday (secular, United States) – (Last Saturday before Christmas)
• Christmas Sunday - (Sunday after Christmas)
• Feast of the Holy Family – (Sunday after Christmas, or on the 30th if Christmas falls on a Sunday)
• Christmas Sunday – (Sunday after Christmas)

2018 dates, Eastern

11th Sunday before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): January 21

• Zacchaeus Sunday/Sunday of the Canaanite

63 days before Pascha in Eastern Christianity: January 27

• Feast of Saint Sarkis (Armenian Apostolic Church)

10th Sunday before Pascha in Eastern Christianity: January 28

• Publican & Pharisee Sunday

Second Monday before Clean Monday in Eastern Christianity: January 29-31

• Fast of Nineveh

9th Sunday before Pascha: February 4 (Eastern Christianity)

• Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Monday to Sunday following the 9th Sunday before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): February 4-10

• Meatfare Week

Saturday of Meatfare Week (Eastern Christianity): February 10

• Saturday of Souls

Sunday of Meatfare week (Eastern Christianity): February 11

• Sunday of Last Judgement (Meat Fare Sunday)

Monday to Sunday following Meatfare week: February 12-18 (Eastern Christianity)

• Cheesefare Week

Thursday of the 8th week before Pascha: February 15 (Eastern Christianity)

• Feast of Saint Vartan (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Sunday of Cheesefare week: February 18 (Eastern Christianity)

• Sunday of Forgiveness (Cheese-Fare Sunday)

Monday after Sunday of Forgiveness (Eastern Christianity): February 19

• Great Lent begins
  • Clean Monday

First Saturday of Great Lent (Eastern Christianity): February 24

• • St. Theodore Saturday

First Sunday of Great Lent (Eastern Christianity): February 25

• • Feast of Orthodoxy