Venezuela : 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
San Antonio Day
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Monday June 13, 2022
Banks only :
Fathers' Day
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Sunday June 19, 2022
cards/flowers :
Corpus Christi
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Monday June 20, 2022
Banks only : Commemorates the Last supper. Pope Urban IV ordered the observance of such a feast in 1264, and in the following century it became universal in the Western Church.
For six hundred years that feast was observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, but in 1970 the new Roman Missal, while retaining that day for some countries, provided that in others the feast be observed on the Sunday after Trinity.
Battle of Carabobo
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Friday June 24, 2022
Secular holiday : Bolivar's victory in 1823 over the Spanish army
Reporter's Day
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Monday June 27, 2022
Special Events :
St Peter & St Paul
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Monday July 4, 2022
Banks only : Christian holiday commemorating the date around 258, under the Valerian persecution, when what were believed to be the remains of the two apostles were both moved temporarily to prevent them from falling into the hands of the persecutors.
Independence Day
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Tuesday July 5, 2022
Secular holiday : Even though the actual independence was granted by Spain in 1830, claim for independence was declared in 1811, making Venezuela the first South American nation to declare independence
Simon Bolivar Day
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Sunday July 24, 2022
Secular holiday : Born in 1783
Summer holiday (beginning)
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Thursday July 28, 2022
School holidays :
Assumption
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Monday August 15, 2022
Banks only : 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.
Summer holiday (end)
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Tuesday August 16, 2022
School holidays :
Indigenous Resistance´s Day
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Wednesday October 12, 2022
Secular holiday : Replaces the former Spanishness Day
Public holiday
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Monday October 24, 2022
Secular holiday :
All Saints' Day
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Monday October 31, 2022
Banks only :
Mid-term holiday (beginning)
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Friday November 18, 2022
School holidays :
Virgin of Chiquinquira Day
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Monday November 21, 2022
Banks only :
Mid-term holiday (end)
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Monday November 28, 2022
School holidays :
Day of loyalty and love to Hugo Chávez Frías
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Thursday December 8, 2022
cards/flowers : In tribute to the former President
from 2013 onwards Not a paid holiday
Immaculate Conception
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Monday December 12, 2022
Banks only :
Christmas holiday (beginning)
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Friday December 23, 2022
School holidays :
Christmas Eve
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Saturday December 24, 2022
Secular holiday : In certain countries, businesses may be closed half a day only. paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday
Christmas Day
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Sunday December 25, 2022
Catholic or protestant : Since pre-historic times in Europe, festivities (bonfires, offrerings) were marking the beginning of longer hours of daylight with fires and ritual. The Roman festival of Saturnalia lasted several days in December (gambling and offerings). Germanic tribes also celebrated mid-winter (drinking and rituals). The Bulgarian (with Koleduvane) and the Polish (with Gwiazdka) perpetuate this tradition. Jesus of Nazareth was probably born in springtime (Reformists favour autumn). But in the 4th century, December 25th was chosen for the celebration of his birth by Pope Julius I (Bishop Liberus is also mentioned in 354 A.D.). Thus, a Christian element was introduced in the long-established mid-winter festivals. Before 1582, the Papal States and other Italian city states celebrated New Years Day on Christmas Day.
New Year's Eve
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Saturday December 31, 2022
Secular holiday : Paid holiday when falling on Saturday or Sunday