Saints Cyril and Methodius (Greek: Κύριλλο&sigmaf ; καὶ Μεθόδιο&si gmaf;, Old Church Slavonic: Кѷриллъ и Меѳодїи [more]) were < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Greeks" title="Byzantine Gre eks">Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century .[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Th ey were Christian missionaries among the Slavic peo ples of the First Bulgarian Empire, Great Moravia , and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cu ltural development of all Slavs, for which they received the title "Apos tles to the Slavs". They are credited with devising the Gla golitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic.[11] After their deaths, their pupils continued t heir missionary work among other Slavs. Both brothers are venerated in the Orthodox Church as saints with the title of "equ al-to-apostles". In 1880, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1980, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron s aints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia. [12]
The two brothers were born i
n
Thessaloniki – Cyril in 827–828 and Methodius in 815–
820. Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers; he was born Consta
ntine,[13] but took the name Cyril upon becoming a monk shortly before
his death,[14[16] according to the "Vita Cyrilli" ("The Life of Cyril"). Their father was Leo, a droungarios of the
Byzantine theme of Thessaloniki, and their m
other was Maria, who may have been a Slav.[17]
Jan Hus (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈɦu
s] (
listen); c. 1369 – 6 July 14
15), often referred to in English as John Hus or John Huss, w
as a Czech priest, philosopher, reformer, and master
at Charles University in Prague. After John Wycliff
e, the theorist of ecclesiastical Reformation, Hus is considered the fi
rst Church reformer (living prior to Luther, Calvin, and Zwingl
i).
He is famed for having been burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholi c Church, including those on ecclesiology, the Eucharist, and other theol ogical topics. Hus was a key predecessor to the Protestant movement of the sixteenth century, and his teachings had a strong influence on the states o f Europe, most immediately in the approval for the existence of a reformist Bohemian religious denomination, and, more than a ce ntury later, on Martin Luther himself.[1]
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T162735Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Saint Wenceslas Day (September 28th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Saint-Wenceslas-Day DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260928 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Saint-Wenceslas-Day-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Wenceslaus I (Czech: Václav [ˈvaːtslaf] (
listen); c. 907 – September 28, 935), or Wenceslas
I, was the duke (kníže) of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in
935, purportedly in a plot by his own brother, Boleslav the Cruel.
His martyrdom, and the popularity of severa l biographies, quickly gave rise to a cult, the Catholic term for a group d evoted to someone as a holy person, and a reputation for heroic goodness, r esulting in his being elevated to Sainthood, posthumously declared king, an d seen as the patron saint of the Czech state. He is even the subject of a Saint Stephen's Day (celebrated on December 26 in the West) Carol, wr itten in 1853 that remains popular to this day, Good King Wence slas.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T162735Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Independence Day (Czech Republic) (October 28th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Independence-Day-CZ DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261028 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Independence-Day-CZ-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood, usually a fter ceasing to be a colony or part of another nation or state; more rarely after the end of a military occupation.
Most countries observe their respective independence days as a national holiday, and in some ca ses the observance date is controversial or contested. Not all countries ob serve an independence day holiday, choosing to celebrate other national days instead of or alongside an independence day.
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Most countries observe their respective independence days as a national holiday, and in some ca ses the observance date is controversial or contested. Not all countries ob serve an independence day holiday, choosing to celebrate other national days instead of or alongside an independence day.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T162735Z CATEGORIES:Days Until CLASS:PUBLIC ORGANIZER:DaysUntil.com SUMMARY:Christmas Eve (December 24th, 2026 at midnight) URL:http://www.DaysUntil.com/Christmas-Eve DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261224 DURATION:P1D TRANSP:TRANSPARENT UID:DaysUntil.com-Christmas-Eve-00002026 DESCRIPTION:X-WR-CALDESC:Christmas Eve refers to the evening preceding Christmas Day, a < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_worldwide" title="Christmas worldwide">widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of N azareth that takes place on December 25.[4] It is a culturally significant celebration for most of the Western world and i s widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day.
One reason celebrations occur on Christmas Eve is because the t
raditional Christian liturgical day starts at sunset,[5] an inheritance from Jewish tradition,[6] which in tur
n is based in the story of creation in Genesis: "And there was evening, and
there was morning – the first day."[7] This liturgical day i
s followed for all days in the Eastern rite[8] and the cu
stom of beginning Christmas celebration (as well as Sunday and the other ma
jor festivals) in the preceding evening is preserved in western Churches th
at have altered the liturgical day to start at midnight, for example the Ro
man Catholic Church.[9] Many churches still ring
their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays; for exa
mple the Nordic Lutheran churches.
Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Cr
9;stesmæsse, literally "Christ's mass") is an annual commemora
tion of the birth of Jesus Christ,[5][6
] celebrated generally on December 25[2][3][4] a
s a religious and cultural holiday by billions of peopl
e around the world. A feast central to the
Ch
ristian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide.[7]<
/a> Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations,[8][9][10] is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians,[1][11][12] and is an integral part
of the Christmas and holiday season.
The precise year of Jesus' birth, which some histo
rians place between 7 and 2 BC, is unknown.[13]
St. Stephen's Day, or the Feast of St. Stephen, is a Christian saint's day celebrated on 26 Dece mber in the Western Church and 27 December in the Eastern Church. Many Eastern Orthodox churches adhere to the Julian calendar and mark St. S tephen's Day on 27 December according to that calendar, which places it on 9 January of the Gregorian calendar used in secular contexts. It commemorates St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protoma rtyr. It is an official public holiday in Austria, Balearic Islands, Cataloni a, Croat ia, Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Poland. The date is also a Public Holiday in those co untries that celebrate Boxing Day on the day instead/as well.
In Ireland, the day is one of nine official public holidays.[1]
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Czechoslovaki a was created with the dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the en d of World War I. In 1917, a meeting took place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the future Czechoslov ak president Tomá&scaron ; Masaryk and other Czech and Slovak representatives signed the Pittsburgh Agreement which promised a common state consisting of two equal nations, Slovakia and Czechia. Soon after, the philosophy of Edvard Beneš pushed for greater unity and a single nation .
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h: Ēostre) or Pas
cha (Greek: Πάσχ&
alpha;, Paskha; Aramaic: פֶּסחא Pasḥa
; from Hebrew: פ&
#1462;ּסַח Pesa
717;)[1
Easter is a moveable feast, meaning it is not fixed in rel ation to the civil calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.[8] Ecclesiastically, th e equinox is reckoned to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, as tronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the "Full Moon" is n ot necessarily the astronomically correct date. The date of Easter therefor e varies between 22 March and 25 April. Eastern Christianity< /a> bases its calculations on the Julian calendar whose 21 March co rresponds, during the 21st century, to 3 April in the Gregorian c alendar, in which the celebration of Easter therefore varies between 4 April and 8 May.
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Forme rly, the post-Easter festivities involved a week of secular cel ebration, but in many places this was reduced to one day in the 19th centur y. Events include egg rolling competitions and, in predominantly Roman Catholic countries, dousing other peopl e with water which traditionally had been blessed with holy water the day bef ore at Easter Sunday Mass and carried home to bless the house and food.
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Celebrating the Australian labour movement, the Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the various state a nd territory governments, and so varies considerably. It is the first M onday in October in the Australian Capital Te rritory, New South Wales and South Australia. In both < a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In Western Australia, Lab our Day is the first Monday in March. In both Queensland and the No rthern Territory, it is the first Monday in May.
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Upon the defeat of the Nazi Germany army, celebrations erupted throughout the western world. From Mosco w to New York, people cheered. In the United Kingdom, more than one m illion people celebrated in the streets to mark the end of the European par t of the war. In London, crowds massed in Trafalgar Square and up The Mall to Buckingham Palace, where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompani ed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, appeared on the balcony of the Palace before the cheering crowds. Prince ss Elizabeth< /a> (the future Queen Elizabeth II) and her sister Princess Margaret were allowed to wander anonymously among the crowds and take part in the celebra tions.[1]
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