Clean Monday

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Clean Monday (Greek: Καθαρή Δευτέρα), also known as Pure Monday, Ash Monday or (in Cyprus only) Green Monday, is the first day of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Great Lent. It is a moveable feast that occurs in the beginning of 7th week before Easter Sunday.

The day is a national holiday in Greece and Cyprus, where it is celebrated with outdoors excursions, seafood consumption and other non-meat products, and the widespread custom of flying kites. Traditionally, it is considered to mark the beginning of the spring season.

In the year 2006, it occurred on March 6th.

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