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. In the year 2006, it occurred on March 6th.
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, a notion which was used symbolically in Ivan Bunin's critically acclaimed story, Pure Monday. Clean Monday is one of the brightest holidays in Greece. Greece is very big on Easter, for more information go to: http://www.chiff.com/a/easter-greece.htm
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