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Post by lagatta on Aug 15, 2019 17:45:05 GMT
Didn't know where to but the 15th of August; L'Assomption and the feast day of the "invisible nation" - Louisiana, Canada? Doubtless other places as well. Big parties in Acadia north, and in Louisiana?
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 15, 2019 17:59:20 GMT
Bank holiday in Spain today (15th). Lots of fiestas.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2019 18:10:20 GMT
Bank holiday in France, too, and the symbolic end of the summer holiday season for many people now. Even though lots of people are still gone, things will start returning to normal, well not tomorrow because it is Friday but as of Monday the 19th.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 15, 2019 21:30:51 GMT
*sigh* Here it has been booming fireworks ever since last night.
For real August fun, albeit vicariously, I've been following the festivities in Cefalù. Skip forward to 6:54 to see the winner of capture the flag ~
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Post by lagatta on Aug 15, 2022 12:41:09 GMT
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Post by casimira on Aug 15, 2022 12:47:43 GMT
I am not familiar with it at all and have no knowledge of any celebrations here slotted for the 15th.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2022 13:38:19 GMT
We'll, it is the date of the religious pilgrimage in Lourdes. Many people from Québec attend. I saw it in 1960 and never forgot.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 21, 2022 12:48:53 GMT
Obviously you know that Québec has become miliantly secular in the meantime; even the Papal visit drew smaller audiences than expected, even though the current Pope is generally liked here for his interest in ecology and social justice, thus the choice of his Papal name.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 21, 2022 13:44:03 GMT
Yes, the media mentioned it here quite a bit. Catholicism's last bastions seem to be Ireland and Italy, and I wouldn't count on them lasting much longer as long as that religion resists being modernised significantly.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 21, 2022 18:45:10 GMT
Yes, the media mentioned it here quite a bit. Catholicism's last bastions seem to be Ireland and Italy, and I wouldn't count on them lasting much longer as long as that religion resists being modernised significantly. Indeed, in Ireland the same sorts of scandal as elsewhere, coupled with a few of their own, and the increasingly youthful population of recent decades, have led to a substantial loss of standing for the church. Even 40 years ago a show like Father Ted would have been unthinkable, but now the popular support for reforms to abortion law and same-sex marriage put the supposedly priest-ridden Republic well in advance of the North. |
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Post by lugg on Aug 21, 2022 20:15:58 GMT
In England August 15th has no significance ( at least as far as I am aware) but as I am researching Kefalonia for my forthcoming holiday I noticed that it was a fiesta day there too. "One of the most important dates in the Eastern Orthodox calendar is 15th August – the Assumption of the Virgin Mary" www.kefaloniabyanna.com/road-trip-of-temples-snakes-and-lilies-15th-august/ |
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