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A crowd celebrates Saint George's Day at an event in Trafalgar Square in 2010. On St George's Day 2002, the Campaign for an English Parliament arranged to dye the fountains red on St. George's Day. From this effort, supporters privately organised a St George's Feast in London, the first of which was held in Covent Garden on 23 April 2003
The date of St. George's Day presented in the book, 5 May (on the Western Gregorian calendar), is St. George's Day as observed by the Eastern Orthodox churches of that era. The belief is that moroi (living vampires), witches, and other dark creatures must gather all the evil power they can between midnight and the dawn of the saint's holy day ...
George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury Charles II [d] 30 January 1648/1649, O.S. [g] (de jure) 8 May 1660, O.S. (de facto) 11 mo 15 d: Saint George's Day, Tuesday, 23 April 1661, O.S. William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury James II and VII - article: Mary of Modena: 6 February 1684/1685, O.S. [g] 2 mo 17 d: Saint George's Day, Thursday, 23 ...
1.4.1 Knight / Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George ... The 2025 New Year Honours are appointments by King Charles III ... National Day Nurseries ...
There are calls for extra public holidays on the patron saints' days in England (for St. George's Day), and Wales (for St. David's Day). For example, in 2018 the Labour Party announced it would make those days bank holidays if elected. [19] The same year, an online petition to the Prime Minister as to Wales received 3,577 signatures. [20]
George's day is also a public holiday. In Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian Orthodox Church refers to George as Sveti Djordje (Свети Ђорђе) or Sveti Georgije (Свети Георгије). George's day (Đurđevdan) is celebrated on 6 May, and is a common slava (patron saint day) among ethnic Serbs.
'George's Day in Spring'), is a Slavic religious holiday, the feast of Saint George celebrated on 23 April by the Julian calendar (6 May by the Gregorian calendar). In Croatia and Slovenia, the Roman Catholic version of Saint George's Day, Jurjevo is celebrated on 23 April by the Gregorian calendar.
1 May, being both May Day and the date that the Acts of Union 1707 took effect. [7] The existing May Day bank holiday sometimes falls on 1 May. Birthday of Elizabeth II (21 April) [1] Victory in Europe Day (8 May) [1] D-Day (6 June) [1] Democracy Day (7 June) to remember the Reform Act 1832, also known as the Great Reform Act. [1]