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Holy Cross Day, kept on September 14, celebrates the Cross of Christ as the instrument of the world's redemption. Its origin is a building: the basilica complex Constantine raised at Golgotha and the tomb, dedicated on September 13, 335. From the fifth century the wood of the Cross was shown to the people at Jerusalem on the day after that anniversary, and the feast has been kept ever since, East and West.
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Autumn Ember Days — Ember Days are three-day fasts (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday) observed four times a year — at the beginnings of the four seasons — for prayer, fasting, and the ordering of the Church's ministry. They are among the oldest fixed observances in the Western calendar.
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