Pentecost Sunday 2024

Pentecost Sunday 2024 is on Sunday, May 19, 2024 (in 170 days).  Calendar for 2024

Pentecost Sunday 2023 has already passed: it was on Sunday, May 28, 2023 (186 days ago).  Calendar for 2023

Pentecost Sunday is the day of the Pentecost festival, a prominent feast in the calendar of Ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the remaining eleven disciples of Christ (Judas had hanged himself) after the Resurrection of Jesus. It always falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter. Pentecost means "fiftieth day": it is celebrated 50 days from Easter Sunday (including Easter Sunday in the counting), hence its name. It can fall as early as May 10 and as late as June 13.

Especially in the United Kingdom, Pentecost Sunday is also known as Whit Sunday, Whitsun, or Whit, meaning "White Sunday", a name derived from the white garments that were worn by those newly baptized on this day.

Pentecost Sunday is followed by Pentecost Monday (also known as Whit Monday), a public holiday in many countries with Christian traditions.

Further reading: Pentecost on Wikipedia

Pentecost Sunday 2025 is on Sunday, June 8, 2025 (in 555 days).  Calendar for 2025

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