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Festival and special days

PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:52 pm
by juan carlos rojas
The Day of the Holy Innocents, is celebrated on December 28th it's a date that commemorates the slaughter of hundreds of children under two years in Bethlehem by King Herodes.It is celebrated in Portugal, France, Mexico, India, Colombia.
Valentine's Day, It's on February 14th, is more comn USA, the people giving flowers or letters to the couple. It is for honour to San Valentine, a priest that used to help young people to get married.
5 de mayo It is celebrated in Mexico In the state of Puebla, the date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.
Anzac Day is a national day in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates the Australians and New Zealanders. the 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
The Groundhog Day is a traditional holiday celebrated on February 2nd
According to Folklore is a celebration that is used to predict the weather to come, maybe spring. Tt´s more common in nort america
The April Fool's Day it's on April 1st On France the people making jokes and spreading hoaxes. The history was The anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, which took place in 1381. In Chaucer's tale, the vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox. And this celebration was a error for the people in the past the easter It is celebrated the last day of the holy week; in this date we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ, according to the canonical Gospels, on the third day after being crucified. In some countries the decoration of Easter eggs and the hunt for Easter eggs is carried out for the childs.
Las Posadas is beginning December 16 and ending December 24, on evenings. Las Posadas is a nine-day celebrated chiefly in Mexico, Guatemala and parts of the Southwestern United States. Its roots are in Catholicism. It may have been started in the 16th century by St. Ignatius of Loyola or Friar Pedro de Gant in Mexico.

Re: Festival and special days

PostPosted: Sat Nov 11, 2017 4:11 am
by paula m
s a folk method used by farmers in the United States and Canada to predict the end of winter, based on the behavior of the animal when it comes out of hibernation on February 2.
According to the belief, if the groundhog on leaving its burrow does not see its shadow, because it is a cloudy day, it will leave the burrow, which means the winter will end soon. If on the other hand, because it is a sunny day, the groundhog "sees its shadow" and goes back into the burrow, it means that the winter will last six more weeks. Today more than 40,000 people flock to the American city of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to see how the whelp named Phil pops up from his home after hibernation and predicts when spring will come.