| American Citizenship Day - Wednesday March 2, 2022 Banks only :
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| Emancipation Day - Monday March 22, 2021 Banks only : Anniversary of the abolition of slavery
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| Good Friday - Friday April 2, 2021 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.
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| Easter - Sunday April 4, 2021 Catholic or protestant : Paid holiday
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| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Monday April 19, 2021 School holidays :
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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Sunday April 25, 2021 School holidays :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 9, 2021 cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s 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. Howe’s 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 women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 9, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Wednesday May 26, 2021 School holidays : www.sjspr.org
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| Memorial Day - Monday May 31, 2021 Secular holiday : Observed on the last Monday in May in most of the United States, in honour of the nation’s armed services personnel killed in wartime and the deceased in general. Created after the Civil War, it is traditionally marked by parades, memorial speeches
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| Juneteenth - Saturday June 19, 2021 Culture : In 1980, Texas became the first state to officially recognize Juneteenth. It remains the only state that observes the holiday as a day off for state workers. Florida and Oklahoma proclaimed Juneteenth a day of observance in the 1990s, and other 22 states have made similar proclamations since 2000 All States except Am. Samoa, AZ, HI, MD, MP, MT, ND, NH, SD, TX, UT, Virg. Is., Wake Is.
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 20, 2021 Secular holiday : paid holiday
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| St John Baptist Day (San Juan only) - Thursday June 24, 2021 Catholic : Christian observance to remember the beheading of John who protested against the morality of king Herod. San Juan only
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