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17 March – Benito Juárez Day; 17 April – Maundy Thursday; 18 April – Good Friday; 1 May – Labour Day; 5 May – Cinco de Mayo; 16 September – Independence Day; 12 October – Día de la Raza; 2 November – Day of the Dead; 17 November – Revolution Day; 12 December – Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe; 25 December – Christmas Day
Andrade, Mary J. Day of the Dead A Passion for Life – Día de los Muertos Pasión por la Vida. La Oferta Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9791624-04; Anguiano, Mariana, et al. Las tradiciones de Día de Muertos en México. Mexico City 1987. Brandes, Stanley (1997). "Sugar, Colonialism, and Death: On the Origins of Mexico's Day of the Dead".
Festivities: These are traditional holidays to honor religious events, such as Carnival, Holy Week, Easter, etc. or public celebrations, such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, etc. Dia de la Independencia or Anniversario de la Independencia , September 16, commemorates Mexico's independence from Spain and is the most important ...
García López is a street vendor who, like millions of Mexicans inside and outside the country, was getting ready to celebrate Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, a holiday in which ...
Day of the Dead is a holiday that originated in ... and All Souls Day (Nov. 2). Different parts of Mexico also celebrate it on Oct. 31 and go as long as Nov. 6, but generally, Día de Los Muertos ...
On the Hebrew calendar, the seven-day holiday of Sukkot in the autumn (late mid-September to late mid-October) is immediately followed by the holiday of Shemini Atzeret.In Orthodox and Conservative communities outside Israel, Shemini Atzeret is a two-day holiday, and the Simchat Torah festivities are observed on the second day.
Together, two smells show dead souls the way out of the underworld: cempasúchil — a type of marigold whose name means “flower of 20 petals in Náhuatl language" — and a tree resin called ...
Hoshana Rabbah is known as the last of the Days of Judgment, which begin on Rosh Hashana. [2] The Zohar says that while the judgment for the new year is sealed on Yom Kippur, it is not "delivered" until the end of Sukkot (i.e., Hoshana Rabbah, the last day of Sukkot), during which time one can still alter their verdict and decree for the new year. [3]