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Yes: on the medieval ecclesiastical calendar, food intake was restricted in one way or another for more than a hundred and eighty days per year.

The high day of the ecclesiastical calendar is Easter.

Unlike Handel’s “Messiah” and Bach’s great Passions, the formal and spiritual models Tippett emulated, his oratorio fills no particular slot in the ecclesiastical calendar.

Copernicus parries with an explanation that their work will systemize the ecclesiastical calendar, allowing the church “to calculate the correct date of Easter each year.”

Tens of thousands of British teens flock to such festivals and they have become an established fixture of the ecclesiastical calendar.