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In Christianity, the Visitation, also known as the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, refers to the visit of Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, to Elizabeth, who was pregnant w…
Christian feast day: Feast of the Visitation (Anglicanism; Levoča at Mariánska hora)
Monegundis was a Frankish hermit and saint. She has been called "a holy recluse". She married and had two daughters, who both died in childhood. Deeply depressed and overcome with …
Christian feast day: Monegundis
Pshoi, Paisius the Great, as he has been known in Europe since the 5th century AD, Bishoy, Bishūy, Bishāy or Bishiyyah, as his name is pronounced in Arabic, known in the Coptic Ort…
Christian feast day: Pishoy (Coptic Church)
Stephen III, better known as Stephen the Great, was Voivode of Moldavia from 1457 until his death. He was one of the most prominent rulers of late medieval Eastern Europe, noted fo…
Christian feast day: Stephen III of Moldavia (Romanian Orthodox Church)
July 1 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 3
Christian feast day: July 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
A flag day is a flag-related holiday, a day designated for flying a certain flag or a day set aside to celebrate a historical event such as a nation's adoption of its flag.
Flag Day (Curaçao)
There are several public holidays in Azerbaijan. Public holidays were regulated in the constitution of the Azerbaijan SSR for the first time on 19 May 1921. They are now regulated …
Police Day (Azerbaijan)
Anatolius of Constantinople was a Patriarch of Constantinople. He is regarded as a saint, by both the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.
Christian feast day: Anatolius of Constantinople
Anatolius of Laodicea, also known as Anatolius of Alexandria, was a Syro-Egyptian mathematician and Bishop of Laodicea on the Mediterranean coast of Roman Syria in AD 268. He was n…
Christian feast day: Anatolius of Laodicea
The Palio di Siena is a horse race held twice each year, on 2 July and 16 August, in Siena, Italy. Ten horses and riders, bareback and dressed in the appropriate colours, represent…
Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)
Dathus or Datus was Bishop of Ravenna during the late 2nd century. He was elected to succeed the previous bishop Probus I when miraculously, a dove appeared above his head.
Christian feast day: Dathus
Saint Germanus of Man, also known as Saint Germanus of Peel, was the first Bishop of the Isle of Man.
Christian feast day: Germanus of Man
Gurthiern was a Welsh prince. According to the Vita sancta Gurthierni, he became a hermit in Brittany and founder of an abbey at Quimperlé. He is a Catholic and Orthodox saint wit…
Christian feast day: Gurthiern
Heliodorus was the first bishop of Altinum in the 4th century. He was born in Dalmatia. Like Chromatius, he was a disciple of Valerianus, the bishop of Aquileia.
Christian feast day: Heliodorus of Altino
Saint Mucian is a martyr of the early Christian Church. He was killed with a sword with two other men, named Mark and Paul, as well as a little boy whose name is unknown.
Christian feast day: Mucian
Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta was a Spanish Roman Catholic nun in the name of "María Ana" and the founder of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Mother of the Divine Shepherd. Mogas F…
Christian feast day: Peregrina Mogas Fontcuberta
Pope Leo II was the Bishop of Rome from 17 August 682 to his death on 28 June 683. One of the popes of the Byzantine Papacy, he is described by a contemporary biographer as both ju…
Christian feast day: Pope Leo II
Thomas the Apostle also known as Didymus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "doubting Thomas" because he initially…
Christian feast day: Thomas the Apostle
July 2 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 4
Christian feast day: July 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Emancipation Day is observed in many former European colonies in the West Indies and parts of the United States on various dates to commemorate the emancipation of slaves of Africa…
Emancipation Day (United States Virgin Islands)
Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus, also known as Republic Day or Liberation Day is a public holiday, the independence day of Belarus and is celebrated each year on 3 July…
Independence Day, celebrates the liberation of Minsk from Nazi occupation by Soviet troops in 1944 (Belarus)
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma, is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Sout…
Women's Day (Myanmar)
Antoine Daniel was a French Jesuit missionary in North America, at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, and one of the eight Canadian Martyrs.
Christian feast day: Antoine Daniel
The dog days or dog days of summer are the hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of the star system Sirius, which Hellenistic …
The start of the Dog Days according to the Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most…