Wednesday Friday facts
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In the Middle Ages, Catholic women were prohibited from having sex on Sundays, Wednesdays, or Fridays, on feast days, while fasting for Lent or Advent or while "impure" (menstruation, pregnancy, 40 days after giving birth & while nursing). Everything but missionary position was considered sodomy
how many days from ash wednesday to good friday?
In Elizabethan England fish had to be eaten every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday by law to sustain the fishing fleet which doubled as the navy.
What is the friday after ash wednesday?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering if wednesday is hump day what is friday. Here are 12 of the best facts about Wednesday Friday Fasting Orthodox and Wednesday Friday Saturday I managed to collect.
what happened on the wednesday before good friday?
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The Catholic Church classifies beaver and capybara as a fish, allowing it to be eaten on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent.
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Orthodox Christians observe some level of fasting approximately half the days of the year, including each Wednesday and Friday.
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In North Carolina, you can only hunt crows on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday while in season but you may hunt crows on most major holidays unless it falls on a Sunday.
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The color of the twist ties/plastic tabs keeping a bread bag sealed tell you the day the bread was baked: Monday-blue, Tuesday-green, Thursday-red, Friday-white, and Saturday-yellow. Wednesday and Sunday are usually not delivery days and aren’t assigned a color.
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Eating fish on Good Friday is only for people 14 to 17 and 60 and over or anyone who for medical reasons. In between those ages people are expected to fast on Good Friday(also on Ash Wednesday).
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Medival church rules restricted sex: on your wedding night, if your wife was pregnant, menstruating, or breastfeeding, on Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, or Saturday, during daylight hours, if you were naked, and only if you wanted a child.
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The Louisiana Bar exam is 21.5 hours long and takes place over a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Most other Bar exams are shorter and on consecutive days.
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A leap year is so named because while a fixed date in a normal year advances one day of the week from one year to the next, in a leap year it advances two days, hence the “leap”. Take Christmas: 2013 Wednesday, 2014 Thursday, 2015 Friday, 2016... Sunday!
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When my grandad was a kid, in Leicestershire, England, the Friday after Ash Wednesday (i.e. today) was known as 'Nippy Hug Day'. The rule was that up until midday, men could ask women for a kiss and if she said no they were allowed to pinch her bum instead!
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2017s February will have 4 Sundays, 4 Mondays, 4 Tuesdays, 4 Wednesdays, 4 Thursdays, 4 Fridays and 4 Saturdays. This happens once every 823 years
