"not a Gregorian leap year, (but 19 in the Julian column indicates that it ""is"" a Julian leap year, as are all Julian ""x""00 years). 20 indicates that 2000 is a leap year. Use Jan and Feb only in leap years. For determination of the day of the week (1 January 2000, Saturday) For determination of the dominical letter (2000, BA) For determination of the doomsday (2000, Tuesday) Note that the date (and hence the day of the week) in the Revised Julian and Gregorian calendars is the same from 14 October 1923 to 28 February AD 2800 inclusive and"
"Dwynwen) is the Welsh day of love much like St. Valentine's Day. Celebrated on 26 December, in Wales Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day is known as Gŵyl San Steffan. 1 January: The Welsh New Year's Eve and Day celebration involving the tradition of giving gifts or money Calennig to celebrate the new year. 2 February: Literally translates as ""Mary's Festival of the Candles"", and it is equivalent to Candlemas and Imbolc. In Paganism, the Welsh holiday name is just ""Gŵyl y Canhwyllau"", meaning ""The Festival of Candles"". 20–21 March: Spring Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle"
"of Spring. 1 May: May Day, a time of festival and drinking, the first day of summer and the Welsh equivalent of Beltane. 20–21 June: Alban Hefin, a time of festival and drinking, (Summer Solstice) 24 June: Gwyl Ifan (St John's Day), a time of festival and drinking, otherwise known as Midsummer's day. Around 1 August: The first day of Autumn, a time of festival and drinking, the Welsh equivalent of Lughnasadh, or Lammas. 22–23 September: Autumn Equinox, a time of festival and drinking, the middle of Autumn. 31 October and 1 November: Winter's eve and the first day of"
"Sadwrn Saint Sadwrn (in Latin Saturninus or Saturnus) was a hermit. His feast day is 29 November. St Sadwrn was the brother of Illtud (The Galilean) and is buried at All Saints' Church, Brixworth near Northampton. He seems to have held considerable sway in the politics of central Wales, which would have included contemporary north Carmarthenshire, and possibly like his brother, who followed St. Germanus, held a temporary military command. There are strong Breton connections with the region which may explain their origins - a far more realistic explanation than the one usually offered regarding Sadwrn's (Giles) Armenian or Georgian"
"roots. There are references to Illtud being the cousin of Athrwys ap Meurig of Morgannwg although there is no known connection with Sadwrn. Caio, the centre of the early church in Wales, may have had a connection with Sadwrn but this is difficult to verify. Sadwrn and Meurig are deemed by some scholars to be St. Giles and St. George. Sadwrn Saint Sadwrn (in Latin Saturninus or Saturnus) was a hermit. His feast day is 29 November. St Sadwrn was the brother of Illtud (The Galilean) and is buried at All Saints' Church, Brixworth near Northampton. He seems to have"
"medium of Welsh . The Cymanfa Ganu is one of the unique features of Welsh culture and its preservation is being supported by a number of Welsh cultural associations, such as the New Zealand National Gymanfa Ganu Association and the Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association (North America). Once a year, a four-day North American Festival of Wales (a Gymanfa Ganu, commonly just referred to as a ""National"") is held in North America over the Labor Day weekend. The four-day festival opens on Thursday night with a ""Noson Lawen"", which some call a Welsh Amateur Night. The weekend continues with an"
"Saturday Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. The Romans named Saturday ""Sāturni diēs"" (""Saturn's Day"") no later than the 2nd century for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German ""sater(s)dach"", Middle Dutch ""saterdag"" (Modern Dutch ""zaterdag"") and Old English ""Sætern(es)dæġ"" and ""Sæterdæġ"". The day was also referred to as ""Sæternes dæġe"" in an Old English translation of Bede's ""Ecclesiastical History of the English People"". In"
"is that the Welsh language belongs to all Welsh citizens and that everyone can contribute to its future vitality. Shwmae Sumae Day Shwmae Sumae Day (Welsh: ""Diwrnod Shwmae Sumae"") is a day marked each year in Wales to celebrate and promote the Welsh language. ""Shwmae"" and ""Sumae"" are informal greetings used in the south and the north respectively to start a conversation. The day is celebrated on 15 October each year in order to promote community use of the language and encourage non-Welsh speakers to consider learning the language. The day was held for the first time in 2013, and"
"Wednesday Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601 it is the third day of the week. In countries that use the ""Sunday-last"" convention and in the Jewish Hebrew calendar Wednesday is defined as the third day of the week. The name is derived from Old English ""Wōdnesdæg"" and Middle English ""Wednesdei"", ""day of Woden"", reflecting the pre-Christian religion practiced by the Anglo-Saxons, a variation of the Norse god Odin. In other languages, such as the French ""mercredi"" or Italian ""mercoledì"", the day's name is a calque of ""dies Mercurii"" ""day"
"winter. A Hallowe'en or Samhain-type festival. 21–22 December: A Winter Solstice or Midwinter festival, a time of festival and drinking, the shortest day of the year. This poetic tradition has been celebrated in eisteddfod, a Welsh word meaning a gathering where people recite verses and sing songs. Holidays in Wales These are the main holidays traditionally celebrated in Wales that are not shared with the rest of the United Kingdom. Except for those that fall at the same time as UK public holidays, none of these holidays are bank holidays. There is, however, much support for the recognition of St"
"Welsh music as a Radio One presenter joined by Dean Proctor. The Sŵn Festival is an annual music festival curated by BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens in Cardiff. The first Sŵn Festival took place on 9–11 November 2007. Bands playing included The Cribs, Beirut, David Holmes, Edwyn Collins, Cherryghost. Art and Film are also incorporated into the festival schedule. Welsh language bands are well represented on the line-up. The Cardiff Big Weekend has taken place annually since 1995 as part of the Cardiff Festival organised by Cardiff Council. Billed as the UK’s biggest free outdoor music festival, it offers"
"the omnibus now airs in the early hours of Monday morning on Channel 4, with the T4 broadcast of the omnibus remaining on Sunday morning but moving to E4. Following the launch of 4seven, the new channel now has the first showing of the omnibus, at 11 am on a Saturday morning. The Welsh language analogue fourth channel, S4C, did not carry the weekday ""Hollyoaks"" episodes as these clashed with local content, and so broadcast the Sunday morning omnibus only. In digital, Channel 4 and S4C both exist as separate services in Wales, and so S4C Digidol – now the"
"Shwmae Sumae Day Shwmae Sumae Day (Welsh: ""Diwrnod Shwmae Sumae"") is a day marked each year in Wales to celebrate and promote the Welsh language. ""Shwmae"" and ""Sumae"" are informal greetings used in the south and the north respectively to start a conversation. The day is celebrated on 15 October each year in order to promote community use of the language and encourage non-Welsh speakers to consider learning the language. The day was held for the first time in 2013, and has been held every year since. Shwmae Sumae Day events are organised at grassroots level by individuals, organisations and"
"Gŵyl Mabsant A Gŵyl Mabsant (Welsh for ""Feast of the Patron""), also known as the Patronal Festival or Wake of a parish, is a traditional Welsh festival held annually in commemoration of the patron saint of a parish. Prior to 1752, the corresponding fair was reckoned by the Saint's Day according to tradition or to the official Catholic or Anglican Calendar of Saints; following the shift to New Style dating, however, the fair was reckoned eleven days later. (For example, St. Teilo's Fair in Llandeilo was originally held on February 9 but came to be held on the 20th.) By"
"Big Chill, Field Day and the National Eisteddfod of Wales. He has contributed to the ""Western Mail"", ""Kruger Magazine"", ""The Independent"", ""The Mirror"" and ""NME"", and guest-edited the ""Guardian"" music blog. He is the voice of the Discovery Shed television channel. In 2007 he established a new music festival for Cardiff. The first Sŵn festival took place on 9–11 November across 13 venues in the city and has occurred yearly since. Sŵn (pronounced ""soon"") is the Welsh word for ""sound"", and the festival brings new bands, DJs and performers from Wales, the UK and elsewhere together with art and films"
"the p-Celtic Welsh language as '. An exception is Portuguese, also a Romance language, which uses the word ', meaning ""sixth day of liturgical celebration"", derived from the Latin ' used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods. In Sardinian, the word ' also figures as an exception among all the other Romance languages, since it is derived from Latin '. This name had been given by the Jewish community exiled to the island in order to designate the food specifically prepared for Shabbat eve. In Arabic, Friday is ', from a root"
"Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd (A Week in the Wales of the Future, literally ""A week in the Wales that will be"") is a science fiction novel in the Welsh language written by Islwyn Ffowc Elis and published by Plaid Cymru in 1957. Set in the 1950s, the narrator Ifan Powel takes part in a time travel experiment and lands in Cardiff in the year 2033. He is hosted by a family and for 5 days is taken on a journey around Wales. He finds that Wales has secured self government and is prosperous economically, and socially"
"of the week in Arabic. Etymologically speaking, Swahili has two ""fifth"" days. The words for Saturday through Wednesday contain the Bantu-derived Swahili words for ""one"" through ""five"". The word for Thursday, ""Alhamisi"", is of Arabic origin and means ""the fifth"" (day). The word for Friday, ""Ijumaa"", is also Arabic and means (day of) ""gathering"" for the Friday noon prayers in Islam. In the Žejane dialect of Istro-Romanian, ""lur"" (Monday) and ""virer"" (Friday) follow the Latin convention, while ""utorek"" (Tuesday), ""sredu"" (Wednesday), and ""četrtok"" (Thursday) follow the Slavic convention. There are several systems in the different Basque dialects. In Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino),"
"Calan Gaeaf Calan Gaeaf is the name of the first day of winter in Wales, observed on 1 November. The night before is ""Nos Galan Gaeaf"" or ""Noson Galan Gaeaf"", an ""Ysbrydnos"" when spirits are abroad. People avoid churchyards, stiles, and crossroads, since spirits are thought to gather there. Children and women would dance around a village fire and, during this process, everyone would write their names on rocks and place them in and around said fire. When the fire started to die out they would all run home- whereas if they stayed, 'Yr Hwch Ddu Gwta' (a bad omen"
"Sunday, the day on which in every week the resurrection of Christ was celebrated. Latin adopted the Greek term for the feast, and in most European languages, notable exceptions being English, German and the Slavic languages, the feast is today called ""Pascha"" or words derived from it. However, in Polish the basic term is ""Wielkanoc"" (literally a compound word 'Greatnight'), while ""Pascha"" is unusual form. The very day is also called ""Wielka Niedziela"", ie. 'the Great Sunday'. In Old English the form ""Pascan"" was used by Byrhtferth (c. 970 – c. 1020) and the form ""Pasches"" in the ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"""
"Whitsun Whitsun (also Whitsunday or Whit Sunday) is the name used especially in Britain and Ireland, and throughout the world among Anglicans and Methodists, for the Christian festival of Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter, which commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Christ's disciples (Acts 2). In England it took on some characteristics of Beltane, which originated from the pagan celebration of Summer's Day, the beginning of the summer half-year, in Europe. Whitsuntide, the week following Whitsunday, was one of three vacation weeks for the medieval villein; on most manors he was free from service on the lord's"
"public holiday in Wales. Other days which have been proposed for national public commemorations are 16 September (the day on which Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion began) and 11 December (the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd). The traditional seasonal festivals in Wales are: Many works of Celtic art have been found in Wales. In the Early Medieval period, the Celtic Christianity of Wales participated in the Insular art of the British Isles and a number of illuminated manuscripts survive, of which the 8th century Hereford Gospels and Lichfield Gospels are the most notable. The 11th century Ricemarch Psalter (now in Dublin) is"
"Whit Friday Whit Friday, meaning White Friday, is the name given to the first Friday after Pentecost or Whitsun (White Sunday). The day has a cultural significance in North West England, as the date on which the annual Whit Walks are traditionally held. By convention, the Whit Walks coincide with brass band contests, held in Saddleworth, Oldham, Tameside and other outlying areas of Greater Manchester. Traditionally, children and their supporters from Anglican school Sunday Schools 'walked' on Whit Monday, those from RC Sunday Schools on Whit Friday, and there was an element of competition in general display, dresses and banners."
"evening at 9.30pm Mostyn Thomas, sang Dafydd y Garreg Wen, which was the first Welsh language song to be broadcast. A commemorative plaque records the event. 5WA Cardiff was a radio service which began broadcasting on 13 February 1923 and ended on 28 May 1923. BBC Wales is based in Broadcasting House, Llandaff, northern Cardiff and provides BBC One Wales and BBC Two Wales television channels. BBC Wales produces the most-watched Welsh news programme ""BBC Wales Today"", current affairs programme ""Week In Week Out"", sports coverage in ""Scrum V"" and ""Sport Wales"", science-fiction programmes including ""Doctor Who"" and ""Torchwood"", and"
"former name ""Wodenstag"" (""Wodan's day"") in the 10th century. The Dutch name for the day, ""woensdag"", has the same etymology as English ""Wednesday"", it comes from Middle Dutch ""wodenesdag"", ""woedensdag"" (""Wodan's day""). Most Slavic languages follow this pattern and use derivations of ""the middle"" (Belarusian серада ""serada"", Bulgarian сряда ""sryada"", Croatian ""srijeda"", Czech ""středa"", Macedonian среда ""sreda"", Polish ""środa"", Russian среда ""sredá"", Serbian среда/""sreda"" or cриједа/""srijeda"", Slovak ""streda"", Slovene ""sreda"", Ukrainian середа ""sereda""). The Finnish name is ""Keskiviikko"" (""middle of the week""), as is the Icelandic name: ""Miðvikudagur"", and the Faroese name: ""Mikudagur"" (""Mid-week day""). Some dialects of Faroese have"
"short news bulletins on weekdays from Aberystwyth. BBC Radio Cymru BBC Radio Cymru is BBC Cymru Wales' Welsh-language national radio network. It broadcasts two stations throughout Wales from studios in Cardiff, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Carmarthen on FM, DAB, digital TV and online. The main network broadcasts for hours a day from 5:30am to midnight with overnight programming carried from BBC Radio 5 Live during downtime. A second station, Radio Cymru 2, broadcasts on digital and online platforms, and provides separate breakfast programming for two hours every morning. The managing editor of BBC Radio Cymru is Betsan Powys. BBC Radio Cymru"
"Anglesey (Wales), Lancaut in Chepstow (Wales/England border), Cusop (Wales/England border), Kewstoke (Somerset, England), Steynton in Rhos (Pembrokeshire, Wales), Aberedw (Radnorshire, Wales], Disserth yn Elfael (Radnorshire, Wales), Llangewydd and Laleston (Bridgend, Wales), Capel Cewy, Mynachlogddu (Pembrokeshire, Wales). Ecclesiastical records in the Book of Llandaff refer to a religious establishment of ""lann ceuid"", probably at Lancaut, which is likely to have been established by 625AD and was recorded there by 703AD. His feast day is 1 July, but South Wales tradition records 15 July as Dygwyl Cewydd – Feast of St Cewydd (originally 2 July before the Julian/Gregorian calendar change). Cewydd Saint"
"(Wednesday), standard Welsh ""Mercher"", from older Welsh ""Merchyr""). Tredegyr is ""farmstead of Tegyr"" (tre, a form of tref = farmstead) + soft mutation (t > d) + Tegyr. A Brythonic form *Tecorix (fair king) might be supposed, as such a form would have resulted in Welsh ""Tegyr"" following normal processes in the development of Welsh from Brythonic. There is a similar name in Denbighshire – Botegyr, meaning ""Tegyr’s dwelling"", < Bod Degyr < (bod = dwelling) + (soft mutation t > d) + (Tegyr). The local form of the name was in fact Tredecar (with “c” [k] instead of “g”)."
"a corruption of Afan. Saint Afan Saint Afan of Builth (; ) was an early 6th-century Welsh bishop, martyr, and saint. His feast day is generally placed on 17 November, although the Demetian Calendar formerly used in southern Wales placed it on the 16th; it is no longer observed by either the Anglican or Catholic church in Wales. Afan as a man's name in Wales is probably a loan from the Latin ""Amandus"". In Welsh, he is sometimes known as ' (""Bishop Afan"") from his title and as ' or """" from his diocese around Builth in Brycheiniog. Saint Afan"
"BBC Radio Cymru BBC Radio Cymru is BBC Cymru Wales' Welsh-language national radio network. It broadcasts two stations throughout Wales from studios in Cardiff, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Carmarthen on FM, DAB, digital TV and online. The main network broadcasts for hours a day from 5:30am to midnight with overnight programming carried from BBC Radio 5 Live during downtime. A second station, Radio Cymru 2, broadcasts on digital and online platforms, and provides separate breakfast programming for two hours every morning. The managing editor of BBC Radio Cymru is Betsan Powys. BBC Radio Cymru began broadcasting on the morning of Monday"
"Cymru in Welsh. A third national service is provided by Real Radio Wales. There are also a number of commercial and community radio stations throughout the country which broadcast in both Welsh and English. Unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Welsh national press is limited. The only English-language Wales-based national newspaper is the ""Western Mail"", produced by Trinity Mirror. Its Sunday counterpart is the ""Wales on Sunday"". When Wales won the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2005 the ""Wales on Sunday"" almost doubled its sales. One study in the 1990s found that the most widely read newspaper in Wales was"
"Gwynedd County Council was promoting it. St Dwynwen is not officially commemorated in the liturgies of the Roman Catholic or Anglican Churches; she does not appear in the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology, nor the Roman Catholic calendar for Wales, nor the 1995 revision of the Church in Wales calendar. She is also the patron saint of sick animals. Dwynwen Saint Dwynwen (; 5th century), sometimes known as Dwyn or Donwen, is the Welsh patron saint of lovers. She is celebrated throughout Wales on 25 January. Dwynwen is believed to have been a daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog, who"
"St Dwynwen in Wales. Nicolas Roscarrok, however, gives as her day 13 July, and opines that 'St Dwin' is the same as 'Dwinwen'. In his Calendar he gives 25 January as the day of 'Dwinwent' or 'Damwent'. During the 1960s, a student at University College, Bangor, Vera Williams, sought to revive the observance of St Dwynwen's Day by commissioning four designs for St Dwynwen's Day cards, in the style of a ""Welsh Valentine's Day"". Another local press adopted the idea, and by 2004 the celebration of 25 January as a festival for Welsh lovers was so well established that even"