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Two speedups: the feasts page no longer builds a liturgical Day at all, and every Day gets cheaper because it no longer strips each story's HTML.

Feasts page

The page used to build a Day for all 365 dates. Each one costs two to five queries, mostly for saints the page never shows. In production a year took about 1 second (New Relic median 961ms).

What changed.

• One query fetches the Day rows that can make a date a feast or put it in a fasting season: feast level 6 and up, fast level 2 and up, fast-free days, and every tradition row (an override can lower a common row's level).
• Only the dates that matter are visited. Each row's civil dates are worked out directly: fixed rows from their church date, and Paschal and floating rows from each of the two Paschal years a civil year spans. The Apostles' Fast is added too, since no row marks it. The walk goes over those dates in order instead of all 365.
• Each date's rows are picked out the way Day._collect_commemorations does and merged with the same _merge_tradition_days. Feast names come from the merged rows, so no Day is built.

Shared rules instead of copies.

• fasting.fast_level now holds the two rules fasting.apply used to set inline: fast-free days and the Apostles' fast. Both paths call it.
• church_date in day.py is Day's civil-to-church date conversion, pulled out for the same reason.

Speed (local, 2027):

	Before	After
Gregorian	214ms, 730 queries	3ms, 1 query
Julian	388ms, 1,628 queries	4ms, 1 query

Stories

_has_story stripped the HTML from every story on every Day. It did that to catch markup-only stories like <p></p>, and it took about a fifth of building a month calendar. #172 cleared the nine such stories from the data, and none are left among the 892. _has_story now just checks for text, and a new test fails if the data ever brings a markup-only story back.

A month calendar now renders in 15.8ms, down from 19.4ms (local median); the readings page and the day API save the same per Day.

Testing

• Equivalence: I ran the old and new feasts code side by side for every year from 1990 to 2110, plus 1585, 4098 and 4099, on both calendars and both traditions. Feasts (date, name, level, Pascha distance) and seasons matched in every case. The only difference: Greek 4099 used to raise an error (a 404 on the page) and now computes.
• Full suite: all 309 tests pass, including the fasting snapshot test.

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