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: Not sure about the SSNs, but I do think in general we should exercise some discretion in posting details about living people. Wikipedia practice can be a guide here. Obviously, things like biographies and general biographical sketches are fine, especially when this information is not controversial and someone is a public figure already. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit§ion=new talk]) 17:53, August 23, 2016 (UTC)
== August 6 and November 8 ==
They represent the mid-season days, standing half-way between the solstice and the equinox. The same holds true for Saint Valentine's Day, which however is not celebrated liturgically in the East.
* Summer Solstice: Birth of Saint John the Baptist (June 24).
* Mid-Summer: Transfiguration of Christ (August 6).
* Autumn Equinox: Conception of Saint John the Baptist (September 23).
* Mid-Autumn: Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel (November 8).
* Winter Solstice: Christmas (December 25).
* Mid-Winter: Saint Valentine's Day (February 14, West only).
* Spring Equinox: Annunciation (March 25).
There is no particular Mid-Spring Feast (roughly around May 10), mostly because of the fact that such symbolism would have been swallowed up by the [[Great Feast]]s tied to the [[Pascha]]l cycle, such as [[Palm Sunday]], [[Easter]] [[Sunday]], [[Ascension]], and [[Pentecost]] (or Whit Sunday), depending on how early or how late they fall in the year. In the East, [[Candlemas]] seems to have swallowed up all the agricultural symbolism which would normally have been associated with a mid-February celebration (not that this does not happen to some extent in the West as well, see ''Groundhog Day'').
I think that this information might be useful and interesting, but I have no idea ''where'' to add it exactly. — [[User:Luci83ro|Luci83ro]] ([[User talk:Luci83ro|talk]]) 02:51, September 23, 2016 (UTC)