Lent

Penitential season in preparation for the observance of Easter
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Lent

Summary

Lent is a liturgical season[1]. Lent ranks in the top 10% of liturgical_season entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,266 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lent's instance of is recorded as liturgical season[3].
  • Lent followed pre-Lent[4].
  • Lent is a type of liturgical year[5].
  • Lent is a type of Christian fast[6].
  • Lent's Commons category is recorded as Lent (fasting period)[7].
  • Lent's color is recorded as violet[8].
  • Lent comprises Ash Wednesday[9].
  • Lent comprises Holy Week[10].
  • Lent comprises Laetare[11].
  • Lent comprises Invocavit[12].
  • Lent comprises Paschal Triduum[13].
  • Lent comprises Reminiscere[14].
  • Lent comprises Oculi[15].
  • Lent comprises Passion Sunday[16].
  • Lent comprises Palm Sunday[17].
  • Lent's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Lent[18].
  • Lent's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • Lent's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[20].
  • Lent's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21].
  • Lent's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[22].
  • Lent's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia[23].
  • Lent's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://christianity.stackexchange.com/tags/lent[24].
  • Lent's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+40'}[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Lent's instance of is recorded as liturgical season[3]. Recorded subclass of include liturgical year[5] and Christian fast[6].

Use and Application

Components include Ash Wednesday[9], a Christian holy day[26]; Holy Week[10], a liturgical season[27]; Laetare[11], a fasting Sunday[28]; Invocavit[12], a fasting Sunday[29]; Paschal Triduum[13]; and Reminiscere[14], a fasting Sunday[30].

Why It Matters

Lent ranks in the top 10% of liturgical_season entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,266 views/month).[2] Lent has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Lent is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has parts
    Color violet
    Instance of
    Subclass of liturgical year, Christian fast
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 11423, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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