Maundy Thursday males partook of the rite. Others theorize that the English name "Maundy Thursday" arose from "maundsor baskets" or "maundy purses" of alms which the king of England distributed to certain poor at Whitehall before attending Mass on that day. Thus, "maund" is connected to the Latin "mendicare", and French "mendier", to beg. A source from the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod likewise states that, if the name was derived from the Latin "mandatum", we would call the day Mandy Thursday, or Mandate Thursday, or even Mandatum Thursday; and that the term "Maundy" comes in fact from the Latin "mendicare", Old French "mendier",
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