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Is Whit Monday a public holiday where you live?

Is Whit Monday a public holiday where you live?

  • no - but I used to live somewhere, where it is a pulic holiday

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Is Whit Monday a public holiday where you live?
 
Here in Germany Whit Monday - or Pfingst-Montag - is a public holiday. :)
 
What Wiki says:

Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian calendar. It is moveable because it is determined by the date of Easter. In the Catholic Church, it is the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church.

Whit Monday gets its English name from "Whitsunday", an English name for Pentecost, one of the three baptismal seasons. The origin of the name "Whit Sunday" is generally attributed to the white garments formerly worn by those newly baptized on this feast.

Whit Monday - Wikipedia
 
@ Is Whit Monday a public holiday where you live?

So far it seems I am the only one who lives somewhere where today is a public holiday :)
 
1 vote for "yes" :)
 
Maybe some think to ignore Whitsun completely is a sign of piety - and one is sure to go to heaven because of it!
 
Where Whit Monday is a public holiday:






The Monday after Pentecost is a holiday in Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Austria, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, The British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montserrat, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Switzerland, Togo and Ukraine. In many of these countries, Whit Monday is known as "the second day of Pentecost" or "the second Whitsun".






Whit Monday - Wikipedia

Is it a privilege of pious Anglo-Saxon Christians to disdain and ignore this day?
 
Now we have Whit Tuesday here. :)
 
Is it a privilege of pious Anglo-Saxon Christians to disdain and ignore this day?
Why would you need a public holiday to celebrate a particular holy day? Loads of key religious dates don't have public holidays, especially for the non-mainstream religions. All their follows seem to manage all the same.
 
Now we have Whit Wednesday here.

Alle the Sundays are now numbered:

1 the first Sunday after Whitsun
2 the second Sunday after Whitsun
3 the third Sunday after Whitsun


But over-pious Bible "Christians" do not even know that there is such a thing as Whitsun.

Probably they would say that everybody will go to hell who celebrates that "pagan" Whitsun.
 
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