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The Solemnity of the Assumption on 15 August was celebrated in the Eastern Church from the 6th century. The Western Church adopted this date as a Holy Day of Obligation to commemorate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , a reference to the belief in a real, physical elevation of her sinless soul and incorrupt body into Heaven.
During the early medieval period, the Roman Catholic Church moved the date of Ferragosto from the 1st to 15 August – the feast day of the Assumption of Mary – so as to impose a Christian ideology onto the pre-existing celebration.
Eastern Christians celebrate the Dormition of the Theotokos on August 15 (August 28, N.S. for those following the Julian Calendar), the same calendar day as the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption of Mary. "Dormition" and "Assumption" are the different names respectively in use by the Eastern and Western traditions relating to the end of ...
Work-free day (it is always on Sunday), in May or June, fifty days after the Easter (date varies). 25 June Statehood Day: dan državnosti: State holiday, work-free. Commemorates the act of independence in 1991. 15 August Assumption Day: Marijino vnebovzetje (veliki šmaren) Work-free day since 1992. [6] 31 October Reformation Day: dan reformacije
The three-day festival of Nemoralia corresponds to the Catholic feast days of Hippolytus of Rome (a supposed 3rd century CE martyr who shares a name with Hippolytus, a mythological figure heavily associated with Diana) on August 13, and the feast of Assumption of Mary on August 15. Scholars such as C.M. Green, James Frazer, and others have ...
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August 15 is the 227th day of the year ... Feast day of the Assumption of Mary, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation. (a public holiday in Austria, ...
Labour Day: Festa del Treball Variable Whit Monday: Dilluns de Pentecosta 15 August Assumption Day: Assumpció 8 September National Day: Mare de Déu de Meritxell 1 November All Saints' Day: Tots Sants 8 December Immaculate Conception: Immaculada Concepció 25 December Christmas Day: Nadal 26 December Saint Stephen's Day: Sant Esteve