Spring holiday (beginning)
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Friday march 22, 2024
School holidays :
Bank Holiday (from 13:00)
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Thursday march 28, 2024
Banks only : Commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper) celebrates and His washing of the disciples' feet Maundy Thursday is not an official public holiday. But since it is the day before long Friday, many people has their workday shortened, and banks are closed in the afternoon.
Good Friday
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Friday march 29, 2024
Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.
Easter
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Sunday march 31, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Paid holiday
Spring holiday (end)
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Monday april 8, 2024
School holidays :
Liberation Day
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Thursday april 25, 2024
Secular holiday : carnations military revolution in 1974 which overthrew the Salazar regime
Labor Day/May Day
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Wednesday may 1, 2024
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 .
Corpus Christi
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Thursday may 30, 2024
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. the actual celebration is moved to the nearest weekend.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Tuesday june 4, 2024
School holidays : Only classes 9 - 11 -- 12
National Day
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Monday june 10, 2024
Secular holiday : Commemorates Luis de Camoes, Portugal's greatest poet, who died in 1580. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 14, 2024
School holidays : Only classes 5.º, 6.º, 7.º, 8.º e 10.º
St John's Day (St. João da Madeira only)
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Monday june 24, 2024
Secular holiday : Only in Braga and in St. João da Madeira
Madeira Day
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Monday july 1, 2024
Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday july 5, 2024
School holidays : Only ages 9-12
Assumption
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Thursday august 15, 2024
Catholic : Dogma defined by the Catholic Church on November 1, 1950, when Pope Pius XII declared that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven.
Local Fair (Funchal)
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Wednesday august 21, 2024
Secular holiday :
Summer holiday (end)
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Monday september 9, 2024
School holidays : One week earlier in primary schools