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The Nativity of John the Baptist (or Birth of John the Baptist, or Nativity of the Forerunner, or colloquially Johnmas or St. John's Day is a Christian feast day. It is observed an…
Christian feast day: Nativity of Saint John the Baptist
June 23 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 25
Christian feast day: June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
A caboclo is a person of mixed Indigenous Brazilian and European ancestry, or, less commonly, a culturally assimilated or detribalized person of full Amerindian descent. In Brazil,…
Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas, Brazil)
The Inti Raymi is a traditional religious ceremony of the Inca Empire in honor of the god Inti, the most venerated deity in Inca religion. It was the celebration of the winter sols…
Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere (Sacsayhuamán)
Midsummer or Midsommar is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the year. Th…
St John's Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations (although this is not the astronomical summer solstice, s
Fortuna, sometimes anglicized as Fortune, is the goddess of luck or fortune in Roman religion. She came to represent life's capriciousness, and was a goddess of fate. In antiquity …
Fors Fortuna, ancient Roman festival to Fortuna
Arbor Day is a secular day of observance in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant trees. Today, many countries observe such a holiday. Though usually observed in the…
Arbor Day (Philippines)
Saint David of Munktorp was an Anglo-Saxon Cluniac monk of the 11th century.
Christian feast day: David of Munktorp
Dorothea of Montau was an anchoress and visionary of 14th century Prussia. After centuries of veneration in Central Europe, she was beatified in 1976.
Christian feast day: Dorothea of Montau
Eurosia is the patron saint of Jaca, a city in the province of Huesca of northeastern Spain, in the Pyrenees, the centre of her cult.
Christian feast day: Eurosia
Maximus of Turin was a Roman Christian prelate known as the first Bishop of Turin. He was a theological writer who "made a great contribution to the spread and consolidation of Chr…
Christian feast day: Maximus (Massimo) of Turin
Saint Moluag was a Scottish missionary, and a contemporary of Saint Columba, who evangelized the Picts of Scotland in the sixth century. Saint Moluag was the patron saint of Argyll…
Christian feast day: Moluag
Our Lady of Medjugorje, also called Queen of Peace, is the title given to a series of visions of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, which are said to have occurred for six Herzegovi…
Christian feast day: Our Lady of Medjugorje
Philipp Melanchthon was a German Lutheran reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, an intellectual leader of the Lu…
Christian feast day: Philipp Melanchthon (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
The Augsburg Confession, also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church …
Christian feast day: Presentation of the Augsburg Confession (Lutheran)
Prosper of Aquitaine, also called Prosper Tiro, was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle. Particularly, …
Christian feast day: Prosper of Aquitaine
Prosper of Reggio is an Italian saint. Tradition holds that he was a bishop of Reggio Emilia for twenty-two years. Little is known of his life, but documents attest that he was ind…
Christian feast day: Prosper of Reggio
William of Montevergine, or William of Vercelli,, also known as William the Abbot, was a Catholic hermit and the founder of the Congregation of Monte Vergine, or "Williamites". He …
Christian feast day: William of Montevergine
June 24 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 26
Christian feast day: June 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975
Independence Day is a memorial day in Croatia, marked yearly on 25 June that celebrates the decision of the Croatian Parliament to declare the independence of Croatia from the SFR …
Independence Day (Croatia)
Catfish are a diverse group of ray-finned fish of the order Siluriformes. Catfish are named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, though not all catfish hav…
National Catfish Day (United States)
Statehood Day is a holiday that occurs on every 25 June in Slovenia to commemorate the country's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Although the formal declaratio…
Statehood Day (Slovenia)
A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and …
Statehood Day (Virginia)