Fifty days after Easter, when the Spirit came on the disciples and they spoke in every language. Red is the colour of the day, and it is counted as the church's founding.
Fifty days after Easter, in May or June. Pentēkostē is Greek for fiftieth.
The Phala almanac gives the exact day for your own city; the lunar and solar rules above are what it computes from.
The disciples were together when a sound like wind filled the house and they began to speak in languages they did not know, so that everyone in the crowd outside heard them in their own.
It is counted as the founding of the church, and it is a Jewish festival first — Shavuot, fifty days after Passover, which is why the crowd was in Jerusalem at all.
The Phala almanac shows this day where it falls for your own city — sunrise, tithi and all five limbs, anywhere on earth. See how the almanac works →
