| Maundy Thursday - Thursday April 9, 2020 Catholic :
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| Good Friday - Friday April 10, 2020 Catholic : Good Friday is the Friday before Easter. It commemorates the execution of Jesus by crucifixion.
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| Holy Saturday - Saturday April 11, 2020 Catholic : Paid holiday
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| Black Saturday - Saturday April 11, 2020 Catholic : Also called Sabado de Gloria, is the day after Jesus Christ died on the cross. This is a day of mourning for people who believed in Christ when others chose to condemn Him and want Him dead. Paid holiday
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| Optional holiday - Saturday April 11, 2020 Catholic : Easter Saturday Christian community only
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| Optional holiday - Sunday April 12, 2020 Catholic : Easter
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| Easter - Sunday April 12, 2020 Catholic : paid holiday
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 13, 2020 Catholic : 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.
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| Optional holiday - Monday April 13, 2020 Catholic : Easter Monday only observed by the Catholic community
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| St Mark's Day - Saturday April 25, 2020 Catholic :
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| Regional holiday - Tuesday April 28, 2020 Catholic : St Prudence Vitoria only
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| Regional holiday - Saturday May 2, 2020 Catholic : San Segundo in Ávila only
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| Alicante Santa Faz Pilgrimage - Tuesday May 5, 2020 Catholic : Please check dates: http://www.santafaz.com/
300,000 people take part in this pilgrimage which dates back to 1489, when a pilgrimage was organized to pray for rain. 2020 edition confirmed
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| St Isidore - Friday May 15, 2020 Catholic : Isidore (c.560-636) the Husbandman (or Farmer) is the patron saint of farmers, and Madrid. When a young boy, he became discouraged with his studies and ran away from school, but he came across a steadily dripping stream of water that had worn a deep hallow in a rock, and this He succeeded his brother as the bishop of Seville, but is better known for his writings. inspired him to return to his studies. His brothers Leander, Fulgentius, and Florentian are also saints. Observed in Spain as Feast of Saint Isadore. Also celebrated in Mexican towns whose patron saint is San Isidro. (shagtown.com)
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| Ascension (forwarded to Monday) - Monday May 25, 2020 Catholic :
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| Regional holiday - Monday June 1, 2020 Catholic : Virgen de la Luz in Cuenca only
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| Corpus Christi - Thursday June 11, 2020 Catholic : 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.
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.
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| Corpus Cristi - Thursday June 11, 2020 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.
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| Regional holiday - Thursday June 11, 2020 Catholic : Virgin of Capilla Jaén only
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| St Bernabas (Logroño only) - Thursday June 11, 2020 Catholic : Barnabas went to live with the Christians in Jerusalem after selling his estate and giving the money to the apostles. When Paul came to Jerusalem after his unexpected conversion, it was Barnabas who convinced the apostles to trust their old enemy. He and Paul then did missionary work together. At Iconium, the capital of Lycaonia, they narrowly escaped stoning at the hands of the mob whom the rulers had stirred up against them. A miraculous cure wrought by St Paul upon a cripple at Lystra led the pagan inhabitants to conclude that the gods were come amongst them. They hailed St Paul as Hermes or Mercury because he was the chief speaker, and St Barnabas as Zeus or Jupiter and were with difficulty restrained from offering sacrifices to them. But, with the proverbial fickleness of the mob, they soon rushed to the other extreme and stoned St Paul, severely wounding him (shagtown.com)
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| Regional holiday - Friday June 12, 2020 Catholic : St John of Sahagun in Salamanca only
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| St Anthony - Saturday June 13, 2020 Catholic : in Ceuta only
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| St Anthony (Lisbon only) - Saturday June 13, 2020 Catholic : also in Aljustrel, de Cascais, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Vila Real.
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| Corpus Christi (forwarded to Monday) - Monday June 15, 2020 Catholic :
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| Regional holiday - Saturday June 20, 2020 Catholic : Corpus Christi in Granada only
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| Sacred Heart (postponed to Monday) - Monday June 22, 2020 Catholic : Devotional name used by some Roman Catholics to refer to the physical heart of Jesus Christ as a symbol of Divine love. Devotion to the Sacred Heart in focusing on Christ's heart metaphorically focuses on the emotional and moral life of Jesus and especially His love for humanity. Wikipedia
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| Regional holiday - Wednesday June 24, 2020 Catholic : St. John the Baptist is described in the New Testament as the last of the Old Testament prophets and the precursor of the Messiah. Another celebration is August 29th in remembrance of his beheading Almeria only
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| St John - Wednesday June 24, 2020 Catholic : John is described in the New Testament as the last of the Old Testament prophets and the precursor of the Messiah. Another celebration is August 29th in remembrance of his beheading
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| Optional holiday - Wednesday June 24, 2020 Catholic : St John Porto & Braga only
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| St John Baptist Day (San Juan only) - Wednesday June 24, 2020 Catholic : Christian observance to remember the beheading of John who protested against the morality of king Herod. San Juan only
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| Regional holiday - Thursday June 25, 2020 Catholic : Jueves La Saca in Soria only
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| St Peter & St Paul - Monday June 29, 2020 Catholic :
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| St Peter and Paul's Day (Rome only) - Monday June 29, 2020 Catholic :
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| Regional holiday - Monday June 29, 2020 Catholic : St Peter and St Paul in Burgos and Segovia only
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| Regional holiday - Monday July 6, 2020 Catholic : Bajada de la Virgen Nuestra Señora de los Reyes in El Hierro only
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| Regional holiday - Thursday July 16, 2020 Catholic : Virgen del Carmen celebration; patron saint of the sailors in Alicante
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| St James the Apostol - Saturday July 25, 2020 Catholic : One of three witnesses of the Transfiguration of Christ in Mt. Tabor, but also a witness to Jesus' agony.
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| St Ignatius Loyala (Bilbao and San Sebastián only) - Friday July 31, 2020 Catholic : Founder of the society of Jesus. Patron saint of retreats and retreatants
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