Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday march 22, 2024
School holidays :
Civil Servants holiday
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Thursday march 28, 2024
Secular holiday :
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.
Regional holiday
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Saturday march 30, 2024
Zoroastrian : Santiago de los Caballeros Day in Santiago de los Caballeros only
Easter Monday
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Monday april 1, 2024
cards/flowers :
Easter holiday (end)
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Monday april 1, 2024
School holidays :
Reporter's Day
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Friday april 5, 2024
Special Events :
Toussaint Louverture Anniversary
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Sunday april 7, 2024
cards/flowers : A former slave who became a general in the French army of Napoleon, Toussaint Louverture (1743 - 1803)established a new constitution of the Dominican Republic.
Labour Day
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Monday april 29, 2024
Secular holiday :
Parliamentary election
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Sunday may 19, 2024
Special Events :
Mother's Day
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Sunday may 26, 2024
cards/flowers : Mothers day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mothers day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howes Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and womens suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mothers Day, with her Mothers Day Proclamation.
Corpus Cristi
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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.
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 28, 2024
School holidays :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday july 28, 2024
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Restoration Day
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Friday august 16, 2024
Secular holiday : A military conflict between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, who had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence. Using guerrilla tactics, the blacks, mulattos and ragged whites combatants forced the Spanish forces to abandon the Dominican territory. [Wikipedia]
Summer holiday (end)
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Wednesday august 28, 2024
School holidays :
Our Lady of Mercy
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Tuesday september 24, 2024
Secular holiday : Saint Patron of the Dominican Republic, Mary is also the Mother of Mercy because she is the mother of Jesus Christ, who is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of Gods Infinite Mercy. Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday