Clean Monday, also known as Pure Monday, Green Monday or simply Monday of Lent is the first day of Great Lent throughout Eastern Christianity and is a moveable feast, falling on the sixth Monday before Palm Sunday which begins Holy Week, preceding Pascha Sunday (Easter).
Kite-flyers on Clean Monday on Philopappos Hill, Athens, Greece
Leavened lagana with sesame seeds
Great Lent, or the Great Fast, is the most important fasting season of the church year within many denominations of Eastern Christianity. It is intended to prepare Christians for the greatest feast of the church year, Pascha (Easter).
An Orthodox church in the Czech Republic vested in lenten colors (Třebíč).
The Crucifixion. Icon by Theophanes the Cretan (16th century, Stavronikita monastery, Mount Athos).
Saint Gregory Dialogus, who is credited with compiling the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts.
The Last Judgment is a repeating theme of Great Lent (17th-century icon from Lipie, Poland).