Clean Monday

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Etymology

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From the Old Testament reading at sext on this day, Isaiah 1:16, “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil...”

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Clean Monday

  1. (Christianity) The seventh Monday before Easter, (Eastern Christianity) traditionally regarded as the beginning of Lent
    • 2010 February 10, New York Times, page D5:
      Clean Monday, a holiday in Greece, marks the start of the Lenten season.

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In the Greek and most other denominations of Eastern Orthodoxy, the liturgical day is reckoned according to Jewish practice and so begins at the vespers service on the preceding Sunday evening.

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