Holy Week in the Philippines held in towns throughout the provinces of Pampanga, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, and in the Ilocandia, as well as in Makati in Metro Manila. Except in the Bulakenyo towns of Baliuag and Pulilan, the Passion tableaux are excluded from the Good Friday afternoon procession. Maundy Thursday (Huwebes Santo) is the first statutory public holiday of the week, and marks the beginning of the Paschal Triduum. Prior to the Second Vatican Council, the Procession of the Passion of Christ was held on Maundy Thursday. This was later transferred to Holy Wednesday for Latin Rite Catholics, with the Philippine Independent Church (which separated
360-day calendar used a 360 day calendar. Romans initially used a calendar which had 360 days, with varying length of months. The Rig Veda describes a calendar with twelve months and 360 days. In the Mayan Long Count Calendar, the equivalent of the year, the tun, was 360 days. A duration is calculated as an integral number of days between start date A and end date B. The difference in years, months and days are usually calculated separately: There are several methods commonly available which differ in the way that they handle the cases where the months are not 30 days long,