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World Day For Animals In Laboratories is observed every year on 24 April. The surrounding week has come to be known as "World Week for Animals In Laboratories". The National Anti-V…
World Day for Laboratory Animals
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia, New Zealand and Tonga that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, confli…
Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand, Tonga)
Franca Visalta (1170–1218), also known as Franca of Piacenza, was a Cistercian abbess.
Christian feast day: Franca Visalta
Giovanni Battista Piamarta was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and educator. Piamarta was also the founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Piamarta established…
Christian feast day: Giovanni Battista Piamarta
Rogation days, also known as Rogationtide, are days of prayer and fasting in Western Christianity. They are observed with processions and the Litany of the Saints. The so-called ma…
Christian feast day: Major Rogation (Western Christianity)
Saint Mark's Day, or the Feast of Saint Mark, commemorates Mark the Evangelist and takes place on April 25.
Christian feast day: Mark the Evangelist
Maughold is venerated as the patron saint of the Isle of Man. Tradition states that he was an Irish prince and captain of a band of freebooters who was converted to Christianity by…
Christian feast day: Maughold
Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur y Gonzáles, OFB, also called Hermano Pedro de San José Betancurt or more simply Peter de Betancurt, Hermano Pedro, Santo Hermano Pedro, or San Pe…
Christian feast day: Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
Saints Philo and Agathopodes were two deacons who assisted Ignatius. After his martyrdom, it was they who brought back his relics to Antioch.
Christian feast day: Philo and Agathopodes
Pope Anianus was the second Patriarch of Alexandria. He was ordained by Saint Mark the Evangelist, and was also the first convert Mark won to Christianity in the region.
Christian feast day: Anianus of Alexandria
Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name…
Christian feast day: Blessed Robert Anderton
April 24 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 26
Christian feast day: April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Carnation Revolution, code-named Operation Historic Turn, also known as the 25th of April, was a military coup in Portugal by officers that on 25 April 1974 overthrew Marcelo C…
Freedom Day (Portugal)
Liberation Day, also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation, Anniversary of the Resistance, or simply 25 April, is a national holiday in Italy that commemorates the liberat…
Liberation Day (Italy)
Military Foundation Day is an annual public holiday in North Korea falling on 8 February.
Military Foundation Day (North Korea)
World Malaria Day (WMD) is an international observance commemorated every year on 25 April to raise awareness and highlight the global efforts against malaria. Globally, 3.3 billio…
World Malaria Day
National holidays in Belarus are classified into state holidays and other holidays and commemorative days, including religious holidays. Nine of them are non-working days.
Chernobyl disaster related observances: Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus)
The following is the list of official public holidays recognized by the Government of Russia. On these days, government offices, embassies, schools, companies and some shops, are …
Chernobyl disaster related observances: Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia)
Aldobrandesca was an Italian saint and mystic. A short description of her life was published in 1584, which was later translated into Latin and published in the Acta Sanctorum.
Christian feast day: Aldobrandesca (or Alda)
Saint Lucidius was a 4th century bishop of Verona, Italy and is a Roman Catholic saint.
Christian feast day: Lucidius of Verona
Our Mother of Good Counsel formerly known as Our Lady of Paradise is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a purported miraculous painting of the Madonn…
Christian feast day: Our Lady of Good Counsel
Richarius of Celles was a Frankish hermit, monk, and the founder of two monasteries. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Christian feast day: Riquier
Paschasius Radbertus (785–865) was a Carolingian theologian and the abbot of Corbie, a monastery in Picardy founded in 657 or 660 by the queen regent Bathilde with a founding commu…
Christian feast day: Paschasius Radbertus
Robert Hunt, a vicar in the Church of England, was chaplain of the expedition that founded the first successful English colony in the New World, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.
Christian feast day: Robert Hunt (Episcopal Church (USA))