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This is a list of public holidays in Saint Martin. [1] [2] Date Name in English Name in French Remarks January 1: New Year's Day: Jour de l'An: movable holiday ...
movable holiday: Ascension Day: Hemelvaartsdag: movable holiday: Whit Sunday: Pinksteren: 1 July: Emancipation Day: Day of anniversary of abolishment of slavery, often takes 2 days-off 10 October: Constitution Day: Day of Constitution of Sint Maarten entered into force. 11 November: Sint Maarten Day: The feast day of Saint Martin of Tours. 25 ...
St Martin's Day Kermis by Peeter Baltens (16th century), shows peasants celebrating by drinking the first wine of the season, and a horseman representing the saint. Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), [1] [2] and historically called Old Halloween [A] or All Hallows Eve, [B] [3] [4] is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated in the liturgical year on 11 November.
Saint Martin's Day: Martin: Burgenland: 15 November: Saint Leopold's Day: Leopold: Lower Austria and Vienna: 24 December: Christmas Eve: Weihnachten: All states, recognized as bank holiday but not a federal public holiday. 31 December: New Year's Eve: Silvester: All states, recognized as bank holiday but not a federal public holiday.
Established to give thanks for being spared from hurricanes. No longer a paid holiday. November 1 Liberty Day: Also known as "D. Hamilton Jackson Day" or "Bull and Bread Day." A day to honor David Hamilton Jackson (1884–1946), a Virgin Islands labor rights leader from St. Croix. [4] November 11 Veterans Day: Fourth Thursday in November ...
Saint Martin (French: Saint-Martin; Dutch: Sint Maarten) is an island in Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the northeastern Caribbean, approximately 300 km (190 mi) east of Puerto Rico. The 87 km 2 (34 sq mi) island is divided roughly 60:40 between the French Republic (53 km 2 or 20 sq mi) [ 1 ] and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (34 km ...
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A medieval manuscript fragment of Finnish origin, c. 1340 –1360, utilized by the Dominican convent at Turku, showing the liturgical calendar for the month of June. The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.