Christian holidays

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The thirteen above-mentioned Christian holidays are free days for all or some Germans.
Which of them mean a day off for you where you live?

Do we have a member from Augsburg? Cause the Peace Festival (Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest) is only celebrated in Augsburg on August 8, making that city the place within Germany with the most legal holidays (14).

Reformation Day is one interesting festival, too. Originally only a holiday in the East German states, it was a onetime holiday in the whole of Germany in 2017, honoring the 500th anniversary of monk Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg.
Due to the enormous popularity of that festival with the citizens (and in order to harmonize the number of public holidays in North and South Germany) Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein officially proclaimed October 31 a regular holiday. Lower Saxony is also about to make Reformation Day a legal holiday, as it wanted to await the resolution adopted by HH and SH.
So, isn't it funny? Both Germany and the USA have a day off thanks to an outstanding achievement by a Martin Luther.  8]

Easter Monday would be interesting to watch, too, if Germany hadn't been reunited yet, cause the GDR didn't recognize Easter Monday as a public holiday.

Ascension Day coincides with Father's Day in Germany. What about your country?

And yes, Corpus Christi is not only the name of a Texan city, it is also a festival sixty days after Easter Sunday.


PS: Can the terms Christian holiday and Christian festival be used synonymously?

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Easter Sunday and Pentecost because they are both Sundays and then Christmas Day.

But afaik, most Americans have to work on Sundays, anyway.

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Easter Sunday and Pentecost because they are both Sundays and then Christmas Day.

But afaik, most Americans have to work on Sundays, anyway.

Not true.

Maybe it's just a cliché, but from what I heard the U.S. labor market policy isn't supposed to be very employee-friendly.

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anyway, Christmas is the only religious holiday in the US and it shouldn't be a holiday in my opinion since we're NOT a Christian nation. That's only for those conservative European and S.American countries, not good, liberal places like the US.

In Canada, Christmas, Good Friday and Easter are all holidays. Easter Monday is this weird half holiday where the government, schools and banks close but everything else is open.

Are Independence Day and Canada Day also free days in your respective country?

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Happy International Women's Day, everyone!
If you're "lucky" enough to live in communist places such as Berlin or one of 27 former Stalinist or Maoist countries, you can celebrate a public holiday today. 👯‍♀️

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Happy International Women's Day, everyone!
If you're "lucky" enough to live in communist places such as Berlin or one of 27 former Stalinist or Maoist countries, you can celebrate a public holiday today. 👯‍♀️

Burger King UK celebrating International Women's Day... 🤣🤣🤣

https://twitter.com/BurgerKingUK/status/1368849338596745223

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Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Whit Monday was also a bank holiday until 1971, but it has been replaced by the “Late May Bank Holiday” which falls around the same time (last Monday in May), so sometimes on Whit Monday, but not always. Our other, secular bank holidays are New Year’s Day, the Early May Bank Holiday on the first Monday of May (inspired by May Day), and the August Bank Holiday on the last Monday in August.

What do you call the Sunday before Whit Monday?
Whit Sunday or Pentecost?

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Good Friday, Easter Monday, Christmas and Boxing Day in Scotland. Christmas only became a public holiday in 1958.

Interesting! There seem to be differences between English and Scottish holidays.

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Happy Epiphany!

Especially to the Ukrainians, who cannot celebrate the solemnity of their highest feast day today.



"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you." Isaiah 60:1

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How does Christmas currently have 102.3% of poll respondents??

That's the result of celestial powers.