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| Date | Name | Kind | More |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday may 1, 2023 | Labor Day/May Day | Secular holiday |  |
| Wednesday may 17, 2023 | Ascension holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Thursday may 18, 2023 | Ascension | Catholic or protestant | |
| Monday may 22, 2023 | Ascension holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Friday may 26, 2023 | Pentecost holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Sunday may 28, 2023 | Pentecost | Catholic or protestant | |
| Monday may 29, 2023 | Whit Monday | Catholic or protestant | |
| Tuesday may 30, 2023 | Pentecost holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Thursday june 8, 2023 | Corpus Cristi | Catholic | |
| Friday june 23, 2023 | Commemoration of the Referendum | Secular holiday | |
| Friday june 30, 2023 | Summer holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Tuesday august 1, 2023 | Confederation Day | National Day | |
| Tuesday august 15, 2023 | Assumption | Catholic | |
| Monday august 21, 2023 | Summer holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Friday october 13, 2023 | Fall holiday (beginning) | School holidays | |
| Monday october 30, 2023 | Fall holiday (end) | School holidays | |
| Wednesday november 1, 2023 | All Saints' Day | Catholic or protestant | |
| Sunday november 12, 2023 | St-Martin en Ajoie | Events, celebrations... | |
Labor Day/May Day
-Monday may 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .
Ascension holiday (beginning)
-Wednesday may 17, 2023
School holidays :
Ascension
-Thursday may 18, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Forty days after Easter, always on a Thursday. After his resurrection, Jesus appeared before his disciples and gathered them to tell them to baptize and spread the good word. He then ascended to heaven on a cloud.
Ascension holiday (end)
-Monday may 22, 2023
School holidays :
Pentecost holiday (beginning)
-Friday may 26, 2023
School holidays :
Pentecost
-Sunday may 28, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Not a paid holiday
Whit Monday
-Monday may 29, 2023
Catholic or protestant : Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry.
Pentecost holiday (end)
-Tuesday may 30, 2023
School holidays :
Corpus Cristi
-Thursday june 8, 2023
Catholic : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Commemoration of the Referendum
-Friday june 23, 2023
Secular holiday :
Summer holiday (beginning)
-Friday june 30, 2023
School holidays :
Confederation Day
-Tuesday august 1, 2023
Secular holiday : Instaured at the end of the XIX century. The date refers to an agreement made at the beginning of August 1291 between Uri, Schwyz and Nidwalden. Traditional observance includes bonfires on the the mountains and celebrations in the communities, occasions for patriotic speeches. Modern observance, fostered by the Tourist offices, include fireworks.
Assumption
-Tuesday august 15, 2023
Catholic : The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is the dogma so far defined by the Church. The definition was made by Pope Pius XII on 1st November 1950. The Pope proclaimed: We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
Summer holiday (end)
-Monday august 21, 2023
School holidays :
Fall holiday (beginning)
-Friday october 13, 2023
School holidays :
Fall holiday (end)
-Monday october 30, 2023
School holidays :
All Saints' Day
-Wednesday november 1, 2023
Catholic or protestant : The day now honors all saints of the church, even those not known by name. The first All Saints' Day occurred on May 13, 609 (C.E.) when Pope Boniface IV accepted the Pantheon as a gift from the Emperor Phocas. Boniface dedicated it as the Church of Santa Maria Rotonda in honor of the Blessed Virgin and all martyrs. During Pope Gregory III's reign (731-741), the festival was expanded to include all saints and a chapel in St. Peter's church was dedicated accordingly. Pope Gregory IV officially designated the day in 837.
St-Martin en Ajoie
-Sunday november 12, 2023
Culture : Friendly celebration that celebrates the end of work in the fields. Feast of charcuterie.
