Easter Monday
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Monday april 1, 2024
Catholic or protestant : In the year 325, the Council of Nicée determined a date fo Easter. Full Moon would fall the 14th day of a moon month (1). Easter would be marked by the dominical letter(2)and the epactus(3). With the establishment of the equinox ne variatur on March 21, algorithms where elaborated to attribuate a date for Easter whatever the year.
Time between two consecutive new moons: 20 days 12 hours 44 minutes 2.8 - Gives a letter code for the year's calendar Age of the moon on January 1st, minus one unity, 0 being the new moon's age.
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday april 5, 2024
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Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday april 22, 2024
School holidays :
Mothers' Day
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Sunday may 12, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year.
One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world.
Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day.
In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mothers Day in 1914
Day of Samoa's Mothers
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Monday may 13, 2024
Secular holiday :
Independence Day
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Saturday june 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Independence from New Zealand obtained in 1962
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Monday june 24, 2024
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Mid-term holiday (end)
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Thursday july 4, 2024
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Fathers' Day
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Sunday august 11, 2024
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Father of Independence Day
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Monday august 12, 2024
Secular holiday :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Monday september 16, 2024
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Mid-term holiday (end)
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Thursday september 26, 2024
School holidays :
Lotu-a-Tamait
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Monday october 14, 2024
Secular holiday : Follows White Sunday , during which Children wear white chothes and attend church ceremonies.