In some dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church it is customary for the bishop to visit each parish or region of the diocese some time during Great Lent and give Anointing for the faithful, together with the local clergy.

In the Orthodox Church, Great Lent begins on Clean Monday, rather than Wednesday, so the household's dairy products would be used up in the preceding week, called Cheesefare Week.

The Estonian name lihavõtted and the Hungarian húsvét, however, literally mean the taking of the meat, relating to the end of the Great Lent fasting period.

In Eastern Christianity, the spiritual preparation for Pascha begins with Great Lent, which starts on Clean Monday and lasts for 40 continuous days ( including Sundays ).

The last week of Great Lent ( following the fifth Sunday of Great Lent ) is called Palm Week, and ends with Lazarus Saturday.

The Vespers which begins Lazarus Saturday officially brings Great Lent to a close, although the fast continues through the following week.

Among the Oriental Orthodox, a variety of anaphoras are used, but all are similar in structure to those of the Constantinopolitan Rite, in which the Anaphora of Saint John Chrysostom is used most days of the year ; Saint Basil's is offered on the Sundays of Great Lent, the eves of Christmas and Theophany, Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday, and upon his feast day ( 1 January ).

The best known of these writings is the Prayer of Saint Ephrem which is recited at every service during Great Lent and other fasting periods in Eastern Christianity.

His feast day is celebrated on 28 January and on the Saturday of the Venerable Fathers ( Cheesefare Saturday ), which is the Saturday before the beginning of Great Lent.

Very popular during fasting periods, such as the Great Lent:

This book is one of the most widely-read among Orthodox Christians, especially during the season of Great Lent which immediately precedes Pascha ( Easter ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Byzantine Catholic Churches additionally commemorate him on the Fourth Sunday of Great Lent.

* St John Climacus ( of the Ladder ) Orthodox icon and synaxarion for Fourth Sunday of Great Lent

The epinomical practice in question being drinking milk on most of the approximately 200 fasting days, especially the Great Fast ( Lent )— an activity which was prohibited by all other ecclesiastical authorities of the time.

Unlike the West, Palm Sunday is not considered to be a part of Lent, the Eastern Orthodox Great Fast ends on the Friday before.

The bulk of the resistance probably stemmed from varying doctrines and practices between east and west ; for example, Roman deacons were prohibited from living with their wives after ordination, Roman priests were prohibited from having married twice prior to ordination, and Roman Christians were prohibited from fasting on the Saturdays of Great Lent and allowed to consume animal blood.

In Eastern Orthodox Church, its equivalent, the Sunday before the Great Lent, is called the Forgiveness Sunday or the Cheesefare Sunday.

The former name derives from that this Sunday is followed by a special Vespers called the Forgiveness Vespers which opens Great Lent.

The church never allows strict fasting on any Saturday ( except Holy Saturday ) or Sunday, and the fasting rules on those Saturdays and Sundays which fall during one of the fasting seasons ( such as Great Lent, Apostles ' Fast, etc.

During Great Lent, when the celebration of the Liturgy is forbidden on weekdays, there is always Liturgy on Saturday as well as Sunday.

This council is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite as " The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy " each year on the first Sunday of Great Lent — the fast that leads up to Pascha ( Easter )— and again on the Sunday closest to October 11 ( the Sunday on or after October 8 ).

Traditionally, Orthodox spouses abstain from physical relations on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays the eves of Great Feasts and throughout the four lenten periods ( Great Lent.

In Harper's book ( The Passions Of Great Fortune ), his comment on the song ends ".. there must always be some hope that the children of ' Bloody Sunday ', on both sides, can grow into some wisdom ".

* 1763 – French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

For drivers, tide tables are prominently displayed at both ends of the causeway and where the Holy Island road leaves the A1 Great North Road at Beal.

What Bright termed " mutually accessible centers " ( The Great Maze Book, 1973 ) also called " braid " mazes, allowed a proliferation of paths flowing in spiral patterns from a central nexus and, rather than relying on " dead ends " to hinder progress, instead relied on an overabundance of pathway choices.

* 539 BC – Cyrus the Great enters the city of Babylon, detains Nabonidus and ends the Babylonian captivity.

* 1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.

Robinson used the prestige of the office to activist ends, placing emphasis during her presidency on the needs of developing countries, linking the history of the Great Irish Famine to today's nutrition, poverty and policy issues, attempting to create a bridge of partnership between developed and developing countries.

* 1783 – American Revolutionary War: the war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

* 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10, 000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.

The Great Tribulation ends with the battle of Armageddon.

** The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration

* September – The Great Tea Race of 1866 ends in London, narrowly won by the clipper ship Taeping.

** The Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a " Bank holiday ", closing all United States banks and freezing all financial transactions ( the ' holiday ' ends on March 13 ).

** Food rationing in Great Britain ends with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II and nearly a decade after the war's end.

* February 10 – French and Indian War / Seven Years ' War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Canada to Great Britain.

* September 5 – The Great Fire of London ends.

The Sunday which ends the fourth week is dedicated to St. John Climacus, whose work, The Ladder of Divine Ascent has been read throughout the Great Lenten Fast.

John Edward Lloyd gave the following assessment of Llywelyn: Among the chieftains who battled against the Anglo-Norman power his place will always be high, if not indeed the highest of all, for no man ever made better or more judicious use of the native force of the Welsh people for adequate national ends ; his patriotic statemanship will always entitle him to wear the proud style of Llywelyn the Great.

* 1814-December 24: Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812, providing status quo ante bellum ( no change in boundaries ); Great Britain no longer needs impressment and stops

This dynasty is seen as the founders of France and Germany, and its beginning date is based on the crowning of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, and ends with the death of Charles the Fat.