Royal Maundy Royal Maundy Royal Maundy is a religious service in the Church of England held on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. At the service, the British monarch or a royal official ceremonially distributes small silver coins known as "Maundy money" (legally, "the Queen's Maundy money") as symbolic alms to elderly recipients. The coins are legal tender but do not circulate because of their silver content and numismatic value. A small sum of ordinary money is also given in lieu of gifts of clothing and food that the sovereign once bestowed on Maundy recipients. The name "Maundy" and the ceremony
Leap week calendar full weeks (364 or 371 days). Leap week calendars vary on whether the concept of month is preserved and whether the month (if preserved) has a whole number of weeks. The Pax Calendar and Hanke-Henry Permanent Calendar (formerly the Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time) preserve or modify the Gregorian month structure. The ISO week date and the Weekdate Dating System are examples of leap week calendars that eliminate the month. Most leap week calendars take advantage of the 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar, which has exactly 20,871 weeks. With 329 common years of 52 weeks plus 71 leap years of 53 weeks, leap