| Daylight Saving Time - Sunday March 25, 2018 Special Events : At 1:00 am local times
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| Spring holiday (beginning) - Friday March 30, 2018 School holidays :
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| Palm Sunday - Sunday April 1, 2018 Culture :
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| Orthodox Good Friday - Friday April 6, 2018 Orthodox : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter (or Pascha) The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy. The Easter bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place: Midnight Office... After the service the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home. The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days. One egg is cracked on the wall of the church (and this is the first egg eaten The ritual of cracking the eggs takes place before the Easter lunch. Each person selects his/her egg. Then people take turns tapping their egg against the eggs of others, and the person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.
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| Orthodox Easter - Sunday April 8, 2018 Orthodox : Paid holiday
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| Orthodox Easter Monday - Monday April 9, 2018 Banks only : The bright red colored egg is the symbol of Easter(or Pascha).The eggs are colored on Holy Thursday after the Divine Liturgy.The Easter breads are a worldwide Orthodox tradition as well.This bread is taken to church on Saturday evening when a special sequence of services takes place:Midnight Office,Rush Procession,Matins & Divine Liturgy.After the service,the clergy blesses the breads and eggs brought by the people and they take them home.The eggs are cracked after the midnight service and during the next days.One egg takes place before the Easter lunch.Each person who ends up with the last unbroken egg is believed to have a year of good luck.The traditional Orthodox Paschal greeting is: Christ is Risen! .The answer is: Indeed He is Risen . May only be observed by the local Orthodox community.
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| Spring holiday (end) - Tuesday April 10, 2018 School holidays :
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| Labor Day/May Day - Tuesday May 1, 2018 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 .
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| Public holiday - Thursday May 2, 2019 Secular holiday :
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| Orthodox St. George's Day - Monday May 6, 2019 Culture :
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| Victory Day - Wednesday May 9, 2018 Secular holiday : Capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies (the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and other principal Allied nations) in Berlin on May 8, 1945. It is celebrated in the successor states to the Soviet Union on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender was signed (in the midnight), it was already May 9 in the USSR and Eastern Europe.
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| Summer holiday (end) - Friday June 8, 2018 School holidays :
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| Vidrovdan - Thursday June 28, 2018 Secular holiday : Memorial day to Saint Prince Lazar and the Serbian holy martyrs who gave their lives to defend their faith during the epic Battle of Kosovo against Ottoman Empire on June 28, 1389.
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| St Peter & St Paul - Thursday July 12, 2018 Culture : Petrovan
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| Orthodox Assumption - Tuesday August 28, 2018 Banks only : Golema Bogorodica (Dormition of the Holy Mother of God).
Observed by the Orthodox community.
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| Summer holiday (end) - Saturday September 1, 2018 School holidays :
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| Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Friday September 21, 2018 Culture : In the Greek Church the apodosis (solution) of the feast takes place 12 Sept., on account of the feast and the solemnity of the Exaltation of the Cross, 13 and 14 Sept. The Copts in Egypt and the Abyssinians celebrate Mary's Nativity on 1 May, and continue the feast under the name of Seed of Jacob 33 days (Anal. Juris Pont., xxi, 403); they also commemorate it on the first of every month (priv. letter from P. Baeteman, C.M., Alikiena). The Catholic Copts have adopted the Greek feast, but keep it 10 Sept. (Nilles, Kal. Man. , II, 696, 706).
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| International Day of the Bosnian - Friday September 28, 2018 cards/flowers :
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