diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 0e63687..0345b40 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -4767,3 +4767,32 @@ New tests in `tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts` cover the full chain (Leo/Hermene
 landing in strict native-date order past the whole 2033 span) and the Annunciation's own
 zero-commemoration case (2035). `npm test` (823 passed), `tsc --noEmit`, and `npm run build`
 all pass.
+
+### Correction, same day: `privileged-feria-major`'s own "duplex-majus+ still gets a nod" rule was wrong
+
+User pushed back immediately: "you dont commemorate -anything- from palm sunday through low
+sunday" — and was right. The cascade mechanism above was built reusing `applyIncomingTransfer`'s
+existing `privileged-feria-major` no-op unchanged, on the assumption that its sibling behavior
+in `decideOccurrence` (a *native* duplex-majus+ candidate there gets a bare commemoration, only
+below-majus ranks transfer) was itself correct — it had a citation (St. Mark, Duplex II. classis,
+"merely commemorated" within the Easter Octave). That citation turned out to be a misreading,
+not just unverified.
+
+Live-checked two more real dates before touching code: the Annunciation (Duplex I. classis, the
+highest rank that exists) transfers with **zero** commemoration on Holy Thursday itself in years
+it lands there (2027/2032/2043) — not just off a Sunday, off an ordinary Holy Week feria too.
+Then checked whether this was Holy-Week-specific or true of every `privileged-feria-major` use:
+Chair of St. Peter at Antioch (Duplex majus) transfers the same way off Ash Wednesday (2034).
+So the exception was wrong everywhere this category is used, not just the Easter span.
+
+Fixed: `commemorations.ts`'s `privileged-feria-major` case now matches `privileged-sunday`
+exactly — transfers every rank unconditionally, no commemoration ever, for anyone. Three
+existing tests had the old (wrong) assumption baked into their expected values and needed
+updating to real, live-verified outcomes, not just loosened: St. Mark (2030) now transfers
+instead of being commemorated, landing May 5 that year (vu's own dense April/May calendar
+pushes him well past his native date); the Annunciation's own 2035 landing moved from Apr 4 to
+Apr 6, since two *earlier*-native-dated candidates (St. Benedict, also Duplex I. classis, native
+Mar 21; St. Gabriel the Archangel, Duplex majus, native Mar 24) are now also correctly caught by
+the same span that year and queue ahead of her.
+
+`npm test` (822 passed), `tsc --noEmit`, and `npm run build` all pass.
diff --git a/src/calendar/commemorations.ts b/src/calendar/commemorations.ts
index 192be9a..d0952ce 100644
--- a/src/calendar/commemorations.ts
+++ b/src/calendar/commemorations.ts
@@ -143,11 +143,22 @@ export function decideOccurrence(
       };
 
     case 'privileged-feria-major':
-      // Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, the Easter Octave, the Vigil of
-      // Christmas — never displaced, same as privileged-sunday.
-      if (isAtLeast(sanctoral.rank, 'duplex-majus')) {
-        return { winner: temporalWinner, commemorations: [sanctoralCommemoration(sanctoral)] };
-      }
+      // Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, the Easter Octave, Low Sunday, the
+      // Vigils of Christmas/Pentecost — never displaced, and never gives
+      // even a bare commemoration to any rank, same as privileged-sunday.
+      // The "duplex-majus+ still gets a nod" branch this case used to
+      // have was wrong, not just unverified: the one case that seemed to
+      // support it (St. Mark, Duplex II. classis, "merely commemorated"
+      // within the Easter Octave) turns out to have been a misreading —
+      // live-verified 2026-09-01, direct instruction ("you dont
+      // commemorate -anything- from palm sunday through low sunday"),
+      // confirmed with two more dates on top of the Annunciation/Palm-
+      // Easter-Sunday evidence already in the privileged-sunday case
+      // below: the Annunciation (Duplex I. classis) transfers with zero
+      // commemoration on Holy Thursday itself in years it lands there
+      // (2027/2032/2043), and Chair of St. Peter at Antioch (Duplex
+      // majus) transfers off Ash Wednesday the same way (2034) — so the
+      // exception was wrong for Ash Wednesday too, not just Holy Week.
       return {
         winner: temporalWinner,
         commemorations: [],
diff --git a/src/calendar/types.ts b/src/calendar/types.ts
index d72f49f..bcd0b4a 100644
--- a/src/calendar/types.ts
+++ b/src/calendar/types.ts
@@ -76,12 +76,16 @@ export type FeastClass =
 // 1617 engine, which the original single-tier model wrongly forbade) —
 // see calendar/commemorations.ts's rules for `privileged-feria` (behaves
 // like `ordinary-sunday`: Duplex+ wins outright) vs `privileged-feria-major`
-// (behaves like `privileged-sunday`: never displaced at all, confirmed by
-// checking St. Mark, Duplex II. classis, merely commemorated rather than
-// winning within the Easter Octave). See data/calendar/temporal-
-// categories.yml for exactly which days fall in which tier — some of that
-// split (e.g. whether Pentecost's own Ember days share Lent's lesser tier
-// or Easter's major one) is still a reconstructed guess, not verified.
+// (behaves like `privileged-sunday`: never displaced, and — corrected
+// 2026-09-01 — never gets even a bare commemoration at any rank either;
+// an earlier claim that a duplex-majus+ candidate is "merely commemorated"
+// there, citing St. Mark within the Easter Octave, turned out to be a
+// misreading — direct instruction confirmed nothing is ever commemorated
+// anywhere from Palm Sunday through Low Sunday, and live-checking Ash
+// Wednesday found the same). See data/calendar/temporal-categories.yml
+// for exactly which days fall in which tier — some of that split (e.g.
+// whether Pentecost's own Ember days share Lent's lesser tier or
+// Easter's major one) is still a reconstructed guess, not verified.
 // `privileged-feria-minor` is a third, weaker tier, added during the
 // December sanctoral pull after finding Advent's own ordinary (non-Ember)
 // ferias have real standing of their own in the live engine — a Simplex
diff --git a/tests/calendar/april-sanctoral.test.ts b/tests/calendar/april-sanctoral.test.ts
index 9c05dbf..ab262d7 100644
--- a/tests/calendar/april-sanctoral.test.ts
+++ b/tests/calendar/april-sanctoral.test.ts
@@ -18,12 +18,29 @@ describe('April sanctoral pull (first pass)', () => {
     expect(getDayCollect(day).status.en).toBe('verified');
   });
 
-  it('St. Mark is only ever commemorated, never wins, within the Easter Octave', () => {
-    const day = resolveDay('2030-04-25');
-    expect(day.winner.kind).toBe('temporal');
-    expect(day.commemorations).toEqual([
-      { kind: 'sanctoral', id: 'st-mark', name: 'St. Mark, Evangelist', nameLa: 'Sanctus Marcus, Evangelista', rank: 'duplex-2-classis' },
-    ]);
+  it('St. Mark gets nothing at all within the Easter Octave — not even a bare commemoration — and transfers past it instead', () => {
+    // Corrected 2026-09-01: nothing is ever commemorated anywhere from
+    // Palm Sunday through Low Sunday, no exception for any rank (direct
+    // instruction; live-verified against the Annunciation on Holy
+    // Thursday and Chair of St. Peter at Antioch on Ash Wednesday, both
+    // Duplex-majus+ and both transferring with zero commemoration). Mark
+    // (Duplex II. classis) transfers off Apr 25, 2030 the same way; vu's
+    // own dense calendar that week pushes his actual landing all the way
+    // to May 5 (every day in between already spoken for).
+    const native = resolveDay('2030-04-25');
+    expect(native.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'easter-sunday' });
+    expect(native.commemorations).toEqual([]);
+    expect(native.transferredAway?.candidate.id).toBe('st-mark');
+
+    const landing = resolveDay('2030-05-05');
+    expect(landing.winner).toEqual({
+      kind: 'sanctoral',
+      id: 'st-mark',
+      name: 'St. Mark, Evangelist',
+      nameLa: 'Sanctus Marcus, Evangelista',
+      rank: 'duplex-2-classis',
+      transferredFrom: '2030-04-25',
+    });
   });
 
   it('St. Robert beats St. Catherine of Siena on their shared monastic-calendar date', () => {
diff --git a/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts b/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts
index 07deb15..78fc39e 100644
--- a/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts
+++ b/tests/calendar/commemorations.test.ts
@@ -89,22 +89,23 @@ describe('decideOccurrence — privileged-feria', () => {
 });
 
 describe('decideOccurrence — privileged-feria-major', () => {
-  it('is never displaced, same as privileged-sunday — duplex-majus and up are commemorated', () => {
-    // Verified: St. Mark, Duplex II. classis, only ever commemorated —
-    // never wins outright — within the Easter Octave.
-    for (const rank of ['duplex-majus', 'duplex-2-classis', 'duplex-1-classis'] as const) {
+  it('is never displaced, and never gives even a bare commemoration to any rank — everything transfers forward', () => {
+    // Corrected 2026-09-01, direct instruction: nothing is ever
+    // commemorated anywhere from Palm Sunday through Low Sunday — the
+    // earlier "duplex-majus+ still gets a nod" claim (citing St. Mark,
+    // Duplex II. classis, within the Easter Octave) was a misreading.
+    // Live-checked two more dates: the Annunciation (Duplex I. classis)
+    // transfers with zero commemoration on Holy Thursday itself in years
+    // it lands there, and Chair of St. Peter at Antioch (Duplex majus)
+    // does the same on Ash Wednesday — so the fix applies to every use
+    // of this category, not just Holy Week.
+    for (const rank of ['duplex-majus', 'duplex-2-classis', 'duplex-1-classis', 'duplex', 'semiduplex', 'simplex'] as const) {
       const result = decideOccurrence('privileged-feria-major', 'id', saint(rank));
       expect(result.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'id' });
-      expect(result.commemorations).toEqual([{ kind: 'sanctoral', id: 'x', name: 'St. Ereden', rank }]);
+      expect(result.commemorations).toEqual([]);
+      expect(result.transfer).toEqual({ candidate: saint(rank), direction: 'forward' });
     }
   });
-
-  it('yields nothing short of duplex-majus — transfers instead', () => {
-    const result = decideOccurrence('privileged-feria-major', 'id', saint('duplex'));
-    expect(result.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'id' });
-    expect(result.commemorations).toEqual([]);
-    expect(result.transfer).toEqual({ candidate: saint('duplex'), direction: 'forward' });
-  });
 });
 
 describe('decideOccurrence — ordinary-sunday', () => {
diff --git a/tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts b/tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts
index 8f70a73..7cd903e 100644
--- a/tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts
+++ b/tests/calendar/transfer.test.ts
@@ -171,15 +171,17 @@ describe('multi-hop forward transfer through Holy Week/the Easter Octave', () =>
     expect(tiburtius?.kind === 'sanctoral' ? tiburtius.transferredFrom : undefined).toBe('2033-04-14');
   });
 
-  it("2035: the Annunciation (native Easter Sunday itself, Duplex I. classis) transfers past the whole span with zero commemoration anywhere in it — matching the real reference engine's own behavior, not just a native-date-order queue effect", () => {
+  it("2035: the Annunciation (native Easter Sunday itself, Duplex I. classis) transfers past the whole span with zero commemoration anywhere in it, queued behind two earlier-native-dated candidates also caught by the same span", () => {
     // Easter 2035 is Mar 25 -- the Annunciation's own fixed date. Live-
     // verified 2026-09-01: the real Monastic 1617 engine shows her
     // transferring off Easter Day with no commemoration anywhere in Holy
-    // Week/the Octave/Low Sunday (Apr 1 that year), unlike a same-ranked
-    // *native* occurrence there (e.g. St. Mark, Duplex II. classis,
-    // commemorated when native within some other year's Octave) --
-    // confirming a transferred-in candidate never gets the "duplex-majus+
-    // still gets a nod" treatment on these days, only a native one does.
+    // Week/the Octave/Low Sunday (Apr 1 that year) -- corrected the same
+    // day, direct instruction: nothing is ever commemorated anywhere in
+    // this span, at any rank, not even duplex-majus+ -- so a *native*
+    // occurrence there (e.g. St. Mark within some other year's Octave)
+    // gets exactly the same "transfers, no exception" treatment as a
+    // transferred-in candidate passing through, not the "still gets a
+    // nod" treatment this test used to assert existed.
     const easterSunday = resolveDay('2035-03-25');
     expect(easterSunday.winner).toEqual({ kind: 'temporal', id: 'easter-sunday' });
     expect(easterSunday.transferredAway?.candidate.id).toBe('annunciation');
@@ -189,7 +191,12 @@ describe('multi-hop forward transfer through Holy Week/the Easter Octave', () =>
       expect(day.commemorations.some((c) => c.kind === 'sanctoral' && c.id === 'annunciation')).toBe(false);
     }
 
-    const landing = resolveDay('2035-04-04');
+    // vu's own calendar also has St. Benedict (native Mar 21, also
+    // Duplex I. classis, also impeded that year) and St. Gabriel the
+    // Archangel (native Mar 24, Duplex majus) queued *ahead* of the
+    // Annunciation by native date -- they land Apr 4 and Apr 5
+    // respectively, pushing her actual landing to Apr 6.
+    const landing = resolveDay('2035-04-06');
     expect(landing.winner).toEqual({
       kind: 'sanctoral',
       id: 'annunciation',