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Colombia : complete schedule of public and bank holidays, closure of banks and stock exchanges, school vacations, trade fairs, cultural and sporting events, festivals, carnivals, election during the next 3 months

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  • Weekend: Sunday
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    Friday march 22, 2024Easter holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Monday march 25, 2024Banks remain openBanks only
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    Monday march 25, 2024San JoséCatholic
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    Thursday march 28, 2024Maundy ThursdayCatholic or protestant
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    Friday march 29, 2024Good FridayCatholic or protestant
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    Monday april 1, 2024Easter holiday (end)School holidays
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    Monday april 29, 2024Passovercards/flowers
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    Wednesday may 1, 2024Labor Day/May DaySecular holiday
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    Sunday may 12, 2024Mothers' Daycards/flowers
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    Monday may 13, 2024Ascension (forwarded to Monday)Catholic
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    Monday june 3, 2024Corpus Christi (forwarded to Monday)Catholic
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    Monday june 10, 2024Sacred Heart (postponed to Monday)Catholic
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    Sunday june 16, 2024Fathers' Daycards/flowers
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    Monday june 17, 2024Summer holiday (beginning)School holidays
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    Monday july 1, 2024St Peter & St PaulCatholic
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    Monday july 8, 2024Summer holiday (end)School holidays
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    Saturday july 20, 2024Independence DayNational Day
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    Wednesday august 7, 2024Boyaca Battle DaySecular holiday
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    Monday august 19, 2024Assumption (forwarded to Monday)Catholic
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    Easter holiday (beginning)

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    Friday march 22, 2024
    School holidays :

    Banks remain open

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    Monday march 25, 2024
    Banks only :

    San José

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    Monday march 25, 2024
    Catholic : Tribute to Joseph, spouse of the Virgin Mary.

    Maundy Thursday

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    Thursday march 28, 2024
    Catholic or protestant : Maundy Thursday: Commemorates the Last Supper when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper).

    Good Friday

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    Friday march 29, 2024
    Catholic or protestant : The First Council of Nicaea (a gathering of bishops in the early days of Christianity) wanted to find a day to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ. This commemoration had to be linked to Jewish holiday traditions, since the last supper of Christ was believed to be a Jewish Passover meal. But the Jewish calendar is based on lunar and solar cycles, so the Easter celebration had to follow the same calendar.

    Easter holiday (end)

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    Monday april 1, 2024
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    Passover

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    Monday april 29, 2024
    cards/flowers : Deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt. The Seder service on the first two evenings recounts the story of the Exodus

    Labor Day/May Day

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    Wednesday may 1, 2024
    Secular holiday : Chicago, Saturday May 1st, 1886: 350,000 workers go on strike to call for an 8-hour working day. Industries are paralyzed nationwide. On Monday, as demonstrations go on, the police open fire. On Tuesday, Chicago is again on strike. Following a bomb launched against them, the police shoot again. 12 dead, of which 7 policemen. 8 anarchists will be condemned and executed. In 1889, the Socialist International Movement met in Paris and declared this day international workers' day . The Soviets will follow suit, just as the Nazis. In France, under the Vichy regime (1940-1944), the celebration is renamed Labour Day .

    Mothers' Day

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    Sunday may 12, 2024
    cards/flowers : Mother’s day has evolved in many countries in different ways. This is because mother’s day has different origins in different countries and therefore occurs on different days in the year. One school of thought claims that this day emerged from the custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus, was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world. Mothering Sunday is the celebration of motherhood in the United Kingdom. It is also known as Mid-lent Sunday, Rose Sunday and Laetare Sunday. It originally comes from the Victorian practice of allowing servants to return home to visit their mothers on this day. In the United States, Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 - October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs for the Union during the American Civil War. After the war she focused her activities on the causes of Pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870 she was the first to proclaim Mother’s Day, with her Mother’s Day Proclamation. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved Mother’s Day in 1914

    Ascension (forwarded to Monday)

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    Monday may 13, 2024
    Catholic :

    Corpus Christi (forwarded to Monday)

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    Monday june 3, 2024
    Catholic :

    Sacred Heart (postponed to Monday)

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    Monday june 10, 2024
    Catholic : Devotional name used by some Roman Catholics to refer to the physical heart of Jesus Christ as a symbol of Divine love. Devotion to the Sacred Heart in focusing on Christ's heart metaphorically focuses on the emotional and moral life of Jesus and especially His love for humanity. Wikipedia

    Fathers' Day

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    Sunday june 16, 2024
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    Summer holiday (beginning)

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    Monday june 17, 2024
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    St Peter & St Paul

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    Monday july 1, 2024
    Catholic : Or Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul is a liturgical feast in honour of the martyrdom in Rome of the apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. The celebration is of ancient origin, the date selected being the anniversary either of their death or of the translation of their relics.

    Summer holiday (end)

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    Monday july 8, 2024
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    Independence Day

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    Saturday july 20, 2024
    Secular holiday : Conmemoration of the independence from Spain at the beginning of the 19th Century

    Boyaca Battle Day

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    Wednesday august 7, 2024
    Secular holiday : Defeat of the Spanish by the South American people in 1819

    Assumption (forwarded to Monday)

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    Monday august 19, 2024
    Catholic : The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is the dogma so far defined by the Church. The definition was made by Pope Pius XII on 1st November 1950. The Pope proclaimed: "We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory."