Easter holiday (beginning)
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Friday march 22, 2024
School holidays :
Maundy Thursday
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Thursday march 28, 2024
Catholic or protestant : Maundy Thursday: Commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper).
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 holiday (end)
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Tuesday april 2, 2024
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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 .
St Isidore (Albacete only)
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Wednesday may 15, 2024
Culture : 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)
Regional holiday
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Monday may 20, 2024
Catholic : Whit Monday - Seven weeks after Easter Monday -Marking the day the Holy Spirit entered the disciples left behind and the beginning of their ministry. Ciudad Real only
Corpus Christi (beginning)
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Wednesday may 29, 2024
School holidays :
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.
Castilla La Mancha Day
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Friday may 31, 2024
Secular holiday :
Regional holiday
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Saturday june 1, 2024
Catholic : Virgen de la Luz in Cuenca only
Corpus Christi (end)
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Monday june 3, 2024
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Summer holiday (beginning)
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Friday june 21, 2024
School holidays :
Regional holiday
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Monday june 24, 2024
Secular holiday : in Albacete only
Assumption
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Thursday august 15, 2024
Catholic :
Regional holiday
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Thursday august 22, 2024
Catholic : Octava de la Virgen in Ciudad Real only
Regional holiday
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Sunday september 8, 2024
Catholic : Virgen de la Antigua in Guadalajara only
Regional holiday
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Sunday september 8, 2024
Catholic : Virgen de los Llanos in Albacete only
Summer holiday (end) - primary
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Tuesday september 10, 2024
School holidays : Infantil, primaria
Summer holiday (end)
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Thursday september 12, 2024
School holidays :
Regional holiday
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Saturday september 14, 2024
Secular holiday : Fiestas Guadalajara only