Radonitsa

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Radonitsa
Wake in the cemetery
Observed by	Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian communities worldwide
Frequency	annual

Radonitsa (Russian: Ра́доница, Belarusian: Ра́даўніца "Day of Rejoicing"), also spelled Radunitsa, Radonica, or Radunica, in the Russian Orthodox Church is a commemoration of the departed observed on the second Tuesday of Pascha (Easter) or, in some places (in south-west Russia), on the second Monday of Pascha.^[1] In the Ukrainian tradition it is called Provody (Ukrainian: Прóводи).