As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day.

Such holidays to honor the dead in Christianity include All Saints ' Day, All Souls ' Day, and Day of the Dead.

The celebration takes place on November 1, in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints ' Day and All Souls ' Day ( November 2 ).

In many countries with a Roman Catholic heritage, All Saints Day and All Souls Day have long been holidays in which people take the day off work, go to cemeteries with candles and flowers, and give presents to children, usually sweets and toys.

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Despite the principles of laïcité and the separation of church from state, public and school holidays in France generally follow the Roman Catholic religious calendar ( including Easter, Christmas, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Assumption of Mary, All Saints Day, etc .).

The cross-quarter days are four holidays falling in between the quarter days: Candlemas ( 2 February ), May Day ( 1 May ), Lammas ( 1 August ), and All Hallows ( 1 November ).

All in all, holidays with some kind of agricultural component, like Passover and Sukkoth, were the most significant for kibbutzim.

Following a trend set by Black Christmas, Silent Night, Bloody Night, Halloween and Friday the 13th ( as well as To All a Good Night, a slasher film with a Christmas setting released in January 1980 and preceding Friday the 13th by four months ), many films of the era used special days or holidays as a motif.

All states have their own public holidays in addition to national public holidays, and in some states public holidays are provided on a local basis, such as Melbourne Cup Day.

All official holidays in Finland are established by acts of Parliament.

The main Christian holidays are Christmas, New Year's Day, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension day, Pentecost, Midsummer Day, and All Saints ' Day.

Already before the 5 days working week was generally adopted in Finland in the late 1960s, working hours in most cases were shorter on Saturdays ( 4 ... 5 h ) than on other weekdays ( 8 h ), but they were equally shorter also on all eves of public holidays, for example on the eve of Epiphany, the eve of All Saints ' Day, and even including Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve.

All branches are closed most statutory holidays.

The Church of God at Jerusalem Acres does not celebrate traditional holidays which were introduced by the Roman Catholic Church, such as Christmas, Easter, and All Saints Day.

All schools are closed during Easter week and the period from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday are official holidays in Norway.

All traditional holidays are scheduled according to the Chinese calendar ( except the Qing Ming and Winter Solstice days, falling on the respective Jie qi in the Agricultural calendar ).

Popular modern sources claim links to unspecified Greco-Roman February holidays alleged to be devoted to fertility and love to St. Valentine's Day, but prior to Chaucer in the 14th century, there were no links between the Saints named Valentinus and romantic love.

In Portugal, Midsummer festivities are included in what is known today as Santos Populares ( Popular Saints celebrations ), now corresponding to different municipal holidays: St Anthony's Day in Lisbon and Vila Real ( June 13 ), St John's Day in Porto, Braga, Figueira da Foz, Vila do Conde, and Almada ( June 24 ), St Peter's day in Seixal, Sintra, Póvoa de Varzim, and Barcelos ( June 29 ).

The semestral break for all universities and colleges usually occurs between the second week of October to the second week of November, normally including the All Saints ' and All Souls ' holidays ) and can be between two to three weeks long.

The main Christian holidays are Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension Day, Pentecost, and All Saints ' Day.

International Day of Treeplanting is celebrated in Flanders on or around 21 March as a theme-day / educational-day / observance, not as public holidays.

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, chocolate coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and chocolate hearts or chocolate in heart-shaped boxes on Valentine's Day.

* Feast of the Immaculate Conception ( public holidays in several countries, a Holy Day of Obligation in the United States and the Philippines ), and its related observances:

# Public holiday, a day decreed by government as a day when the bulk of the population is not normally expected to be at work, such as Australia Day, Anzac Day, bank holidays or Christmas Day.

Days referred to as holidays in other places but which do not involve formally decreed time away from work especially for that day, such as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day, are not described as holidays in Australia or the UK.

Several secular holidays are observed, such as Earth Day or, Arbor Day, or Labor Day, both internationally, and across multi-country regions, often in conjunction with organizations such as the United Nations.

The modern holidays of Yom Ha-shoah ( Holocaust Remembrance Day ) and Yom Ha ' atzmaut ( Israeli Independence Day ) commemorate the horrors of the Holocaust and the achievement of Israel independence, respectively.

This led to ship owners complaining that seamen were taking excessive holidays by having one Labour Day in one port then another in their next port.

Floral business is seasonal and is heavily influenced by the following holidays and events: Christmas, Valentine's Day, Administrative Professionals ' Day, Mothers ' Day, All Souls Day, Advent, Easter, weddings and funerals.

Most schools have holidays between the national holiday on October 26 and All Souls Day on November 2, but those are unofficial holidays not observed by all schools in Austria.

The bridegroom's children were here for the Christmas holidays and can't return.

Anne would have seen Weightman on her holidays at home, particularly during summer 1842 when her sisters were away.

William Fitzstephen ( d. about 1190 ), in his biography of Thomas Becket, gives a graphic sketch of the London of his day and, writing of the summer amusements of the young men, says that on holidays they were " exercised in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, Casting of Stones jactu lapidum, and Throwing of Javelins fitted with Loops for the Purpose, which they strive to fling before the Mark ; they also use Bucklers, like fighting Men.

Summer holidays were spent in Scotland and in the English Lake District where Beatrix developed a love of the natural world which was the subject of her painting from an early age.

In addition, the number of motor cars on the roads rose from 3 million to 5 million from 1945 to 1951, and seaside holidays were taken by far more people than ever before.

In October 2006, the foreigner reporting hotline's operating hours were extended to include Saturday, Sunday and national holidays.

The oldest prayer books date from the time of the Geonim of Babylonia ; " some were composed by respected rabbinic scholars at the request of far-flung communities seeking an authoritative text of the required prayers for daily use, Shabbat, and holidays.

His mother considered herself a Communist, while his father was a Social Democrat, and both were committed nudists, and the young Lars went on several childhood holidays to nudist camps.

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

" After the many wedding parties were over the newlyweds moved into the Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg where they were to live for the next 15 years, when they were not taking extended holidays at their summer villa Livadia in the Crimea.

The first orchestras were made up of small groups of musicians that gathered for festivals, holidays or funerals.

Both of her parents were Jewish, though Gellar's family had a Christmas tree during her childhood holidays.

Taylor argues most people " were enjoying a richer life than any previously known in the history of the world: longer holidays, shorter hours, higher real wages.

For example: " Paul Daniels's Jet-Ski Journey to the Centre of Elvis ", and " Arse Farm – Young Pete and Jenny Nostradamus were spending the holidays with their Uncle Jed, who farmed arses deep in the heart of the Sussex countryside ...".

There were 72 weeks and an additional five national holidays inserted within three of them totaling a year of 365 days.

In the early days they were in a " Classified Advertisements " section with subsections " Official Appointments ", " Appointments and Situations Vacant ", and " Travel ", with a list of coach holidays and prices.

During the Elizabethan era, people looked forward to holidays because opportunities for leisure were limited, with time away from hard work being restricted to periods after church on Sundays.

As a result of this legislation, many ideas were put into practice such as language classes for immigrants, daycentres for the elderly or disabled, day nurseries, adventure playgrounds, and holidays for deprived or handicapped children.

Previously there were three editions each weekday, excluding Bank holidays.

About 90 days out of each year were designated as religious or civil holidays, free from manual labor.