| Día de la Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Tenerife only) - Tuesday February 2, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Chinese New Year - Thursday February 11, 2021 cards/flowers : Www.tourismthailand.org Chinese community only
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| Chinese New Year - Friday February 12, 2021 cards/flowers : At New Year during the night, the Jade Emperor conveyed all animals. Only 12 showed up. To thank them, Buddha dedicated one symbolic year per visitor. Each new born would inherit the relevant animal's characteristics. NOT a public holiday
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| Valentine's Day - Monday February 14, 2022 cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February Women purchase gifts for men on February 14, and men reciprocate their love and affection on “White Day,” March 14.
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| Mother's Day - Sunday February 14, 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.
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| Valentine's Day - Monday February 14, 2022 cards/flowers : Introduced by Pope Gelasus in 498, perhaps in response to a local Roman tradition of lovers writing their names on an urn in February
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| Defenders' Day - Tuesday February 15, 2022 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Democracy Day (Rashtriya Prajatantra Divas) - Friday February 19, 2021 cards/flowers : The Rana Dynasty ruled Nepal for 104 years. It was on this day in 1951 when they were ousted from power. To mark this political shift, the Nepali army sounds the bugle at sunrise and fires cannons atop the Bhimsen tower in Kathmandu. A formal ceremony to commemorate the day is held at the Nepal Army Pavilion and attended by the Prime Minister and other key government officials. Celebration of the Democracy Day, however, has not been consistently observed by the Maoist-led government although the country’s Armed Forces and civilian organizations honor this day with their own version of programs.
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| Dragobete - Thursday February 24, 2022 cards/flowers : Dragobete was the son of Baba Dochia, which stands for the main character in the pagan myth related to spring arrival and the end of the harsh winter. Due to his endless kindness he was chosen – according to some sources, by Virgin Mary – to be the Guardian of Love.
The day is particularly known as the day when the birds are betrothed . It is around this time that the birds begin to build their nests and mate. On this day, considered locally the first day of spring, boys and girls gather vernal flowers and sing together. [Wikipedia]
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| Arbor Day - Thursday March 4, 2021 cards/flowers : Tree-planting day
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| Saint Casimir's day - Thursday March 4, 2021 cards/flowers : Patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia
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| Grandmothers Day - Sunday March 7, 2021 cards/flowers : Depuis 1987
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| Womens' Day - Monday March 8, 2021 cards/flowers : except in the Gaza Strip
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| Women's Day - 1/2 day for working women - Monday March 8, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Monday March 8, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Womens' Day - Monday March 8, 2021 cards/flowers : Nőnap
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| Maha Shivaratri - Friday March 12, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Friday March 12, 2021 cards/flowers : Tree-Planting Day
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday March 14, 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. Called "Mothering Sunday" in the UK
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| Shrove Monday/Green Monday - Monday March 15, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Anniversary of the Revolution 1848-49 - Monday March 15, 2021 cards/flowers : Hungarian revolt against the Austrian rule Only observed by the Hungarian community (Transylvania)
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| St Patrick's Day - Wednesday March 17, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Wednesday March 17, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Day of Solidarity - Thursday March 18, 2021 cards/flowers : Between Crimea and Russia
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| San José - Friday March 19, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| St Joseph's Day - Friday March 19, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Friday March 19, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Gom Kora Tshechu - Saturday March 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Vernal Equinox - Saturday March 20, 2021 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Noruz - Saturday March 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| St Benedict - Sunday March 21, 2021 cards/flowers : Catholic Christian recognition of the father of the The Benedictine Order. It was the first Order of the Western Church Monastic tradition. Patron saint of speleologists. only in Engelberg
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday March 21, 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.
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday March 21, 2021 cards/flowers : Ruz-e Madar in Arabic
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| Noruz - Sunday March 21, 2021 cards/flowers : From 2011 onwards
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| Arbor Day - Sunday March 21, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Noruz - Monday March 22, 2021 cards/flowers : From 2012 onwards
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| Arbor Day - Wednesday March 24, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Greek National Day - Thursday March 25, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Day of Peace - Friday March 26, 2021 cards/flowers : 'Día Nacional por la Paz, la Vida y la Justicia' is an appeal to Salvadorian society to favour life, peace and security and to repudiate the violent and criminal actions.
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| Union Day - Saturday March 27, 2021 cards/flowers : March 27, 1918, is one of the most significant days in the Romanian history. At that moment, after 106 years of Tsarist occupation, Bessarabia returned to its natural borders, being the first Romanian province that united with Romania
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| Tibet Liberation Day (Tibet only) - Sunday March 28, 2021 cards/flowers : Serfs' Emancipation Day
On March 28, 1959, Tibetan serfs and slaves, who accounted for more than 90 percent of the region's population, were freed after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters,
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| Mother's Day - Sunday March 28, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Holi / Holika / Medin Poya/Dola Purnima - Monday March 29, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Cesar Chavez Day - Wednesday March 31, 2021 cards/flowers : Labor leader Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Proclaimed a national commemorative holiday in 2014 by President Barack Obama.
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| April Fools Day - Thursday April 1, 2021 cards/flowers : As the story goes, in 1564, France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day, instead of the last week of March which was previously observed. In 1582, the Pope followed suit. Those who went on celebrating April 1st were mocked. As the zodiacal sign was the fish, The French placed dead fish on the backs of one another. Traditions vary from country to country.
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| Maundy Thursday - Thursday April 1, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Pascua Florida Day - Friday April 2, 2021 cards/flowers : Anniversary of the discovery of Florida in 1513 by Juan Ponce de León, who was looking for gold and the Fountain of Youth. He probably named the land Pascua Florida because the date was near Easter ( Pascua in Spanish) Florida
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| Good Friday - Friday April 2, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mother's Day - Saturday April 3, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Passover - Saturday April 3, 2021 cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus NOT a public holiday
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| Easter - Sunday April 4, 2021 cards/flowers : From 2019 onwards
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| Easter Monday - Monday April 5, 2021 cards/flowers : from 2014 onwards
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| Toussaint Louverture Anniversary - Wednesday April 7, 2021 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.
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| Start of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday April 13, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Deportation Day - Sunday April 25, 2021 cards/flowers : In the early 1950s, former deportees or their families wanted a national celebration for preserving the memory of the deportation.
The law of 14 April 1954, unanimously passed by the French Parliament has responded to the need to preserve the memory of the deportation by creating the National Day of Remembrance of the victims and heroes of the deportation . Not a public holiday
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| Labour Day - Saturday May 1, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Orthodox Holy Saturday - Saturday May 1, 2021 cards/flowers : Great Saturday – ts’iteli parask’evi
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 2, 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.
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 2, 2021 cards/flowers : Anyák napja
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| Easter Monday - Monday May 3, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| 1902 Montagne Pelée eruption commemoration - Saturday May 8, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 9, 2021 cards/flowers : Probably linked with a celebration in England in the 1600s ( Mothering Sunday ). Honored all mothers in England. Mothering Sunday gave poor servants who lived and worked for the wealthy a day off to actually go home and dedicate time to their mothers. Mothering Cake , a special cake, was common for the celebration.
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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 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday May 9, 2021 cards/flowers : Ziua Tatălui
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| National Day of Prayer - Sunday May 9, 2021 cards/flowers : National Day of Honor for troops who contributed to Afghanistan mission
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| Mothers' Day - Monday May 10, 2021 cards/flowers : The mother is given a serenade sung by her family or by a band
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| Abolition of Slavery - Monday May 10, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Monday May 10, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Ascension - Thursday May 13, 2021 cards/flowers : not a public holiday
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| End of Ramadan (may be changed to the nearest day) - Thursday May 13, 2021 cards/flowers : The month of Ramadan is that in which was revealed the Quran; a guidance for mankind, and clear proofs of the guidance, and the criterion (of right and wrong). And whosoever of you is present, let him fast the month, and whosoever of you is sick or on a journey, a number of other days. Allah desires for you ease; He desires not hardship for you; and that you should complete the period, and that you should magnify Allah for having guided you, and that perhaps you may be thankful NOT a public holiday [Wikipedia]
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| Fathers' Day - Thursday May 13, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Liberation Day - Sunday May 16, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday May 16, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Deportation Day - Tuesday May 18, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Buddha's Anniversary - Wednesday May 19, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 23, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers Day - Wednesday May 26, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Vesak - Buddha Purnima - Visakha Bucha - Wednesday May 26, 2021 cards/flowers : Commemorates to Buddhists the birth, enlightenment and the passing away of Gautama Buddha.
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| Republic Day - Friday May 28, 2021 cards/flowers : Commemorates the overthrow of the 240-year-old monarchy and its eventual replacement by the Constituent Assembly. Military and civilian parades and traditional dances and cultural performances take place in the capital, Kathmandu. From 2008 onwards.
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| Mother's Day - Saturday May 29, 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.
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| St Fernand (Seville only) - Sunday May 30, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday May 30, 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.
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| Mother's Day - Sunday May 30, 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.
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| Arbor Day - Sunday May 30, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna Day - Monday May 31, 2021 cards/flowers : Grandson of King Thakombau, the last king of Fiji (until 1874), Mr. Sukuna joined the French Legion during WW1. He was highly honored and even has a monument in Souain-Perthes-les Hurlus (France), as a horseman
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| Peace Memorial Day - Monday May 31, 2021 cards/flowers : The Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) was finalized at the All Darfur Stakeholders Conference in May 2011, in Doha, Qatar. In accordance with the DDPD, the Government of Sudan appointed a Darfur Regional Authority and a Darfuri as Second Vice President of the Republic of Sudan.
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