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Sun. 12/25
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All day
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Christmas Day
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All day
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Christmas
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Mon. 12/26
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All day
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Boxing Day
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Wed. 12/28
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All day
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Childermas
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Sun. 1/1
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All day
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New Year's Day
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Mon. 1/2
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All day
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2nd January (Scotland)
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Thu. 1/5
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All day
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Epiphany Eve
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Fri. 1/6
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All day
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Epiphany
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Fri. 1/13
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All day
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Feast of the Baptism of Christ
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Tue. 2/14
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All day
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Valentine's Day
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All day
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St. Valentine's Day
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Mon. 2/27
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All day
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Shrove Monday
Monday before Ash Wednesday. Also called Rose Monday. In Denmark, today is calledFastelavn. In Germany and Austria today coincides with Fasching (or Feast of Fools).
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Tue. 2/28
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All day
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Shrove Tuesday
Today is the last day of Shrovetide, and a time of merrymaking before Lent. Also known as Mardi Gras.
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Wed. 3/1
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All day
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St. David's Day
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All day
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Ash Wednesday
46 days before Easter. The Day of Ashes, is the first day of Lent, occuring forty days before Easter not counting Sundays. The ancient custom on this day is for the faithful to receive on the forehead the sign of a cross marked with blessed ashes. The palms from the previous Palm Sunday are burned and the ashes are blessed for the ceremony before the Mass.
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Fri. 3/17
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All day
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St. Patrick's Day (N. Ireland)
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Sat. 3/25
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All day
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Annunciation
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Sun. 4/9
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Sun. 4/16
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All day
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Holy Week
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Sun. 4/9
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All day
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Palm Sunday
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Thu. 4/13
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All day
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Thursday before Easter
Commemorates Christ's Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet on that day.
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