| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Friday October 15, 2021 School holidays :
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| Constitution Day - Sunday October 17, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Constitution Celebration - Tuesday October 19, 2021 Secular holiday : Over a three day period
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| Peniamina’s Day - Monday October 25, 2021 Secular holiday : Nukai Peniamina introduced Christianity to the island in 1846.
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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Monday October 25, 2021 School holidays :
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| Summer holiday (beginning) - Friday December 3, 2021 School holidays :
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| Christmas Day - Saturday December 25, 2021 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 Year’s Day on Christmas Day.
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| Boxing Day - Monday December 27, 2021 Secular holiday :
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| Boxing Day/Family Day - Tuesday December 28, 2021 Secular holiday : The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients. "Tweede Kerstdag" applies to the Netherlands (second Christmas Day) and "Anden Juledag" to Denmark
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