| Children's Day - Wednesday June 1, 2022 cards/flowers : Originated in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925.
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| Corpus Christi - Thursday June 3, 2021 cards/flowers : Makeshift altars are displayed on the previous day. Spectacular processions on the Corpus Christi day.
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| Liberation Day - Sunday June 5, 2022 cards/flowers : Commemorates the resolution which lead to independence on June 29, 1976
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 5, 2022 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 6, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Regional holiday - Friday June 10, 2022 cards/flowers : Foz do Iguaçu Day Foz do Iguaçu only
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| Valentine's Day - Sunday June 12, 2022 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 13, 2021 cards/flowers : except in Antwert
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday June 13, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Tuen Ng Festival (Dragon Boats) - Monday June 14, 2021 cards/flowers : The festival occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar, the source of its alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The focus of most celebrations involves eating zongzi (sticky rice treats wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking realgar wine (雄黃酒, xiónghuángjiǔ), and racing dragon boats.
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty. [Wikipedia]
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| Arbor Day - Wednesday June 15, 2022 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Friday June 17, 2022 cards/flowers :
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| Family Day - Saturday June 18, 2022 cards/flowers : as of 2020
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday June 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Tuesday June 21, 2022 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Tuesday June 21, 2022 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Wednesday June 23, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday June 27, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Armed Forces Day - Thursday July 1, 2021 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Youth Day - Sunday July 4, 2021 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| St Cyrilus and St Methodius - Monday July 5, 2021 cards/flowers : Cyril and Methodius were two brothers born in Thessaloniki in the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century, who became missionaries of Christianity in Khazaria and Great Moravia. They both perfected a Slavonic alphabet which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy into this language.
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| Arbor Day - Thursday July 8, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday July 11, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Hadj Season - Sunday July 11, 2021 cards/flowers : The word Hajj means to intend a journey , which connotes both the outward act of a journey and the inward act of intentions. It is an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, and a mandatory religious duty for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by all adult Muslims who are physically and financially capable of undertaking the journey, and can support their family during their absence. It is one of the five pillars of Islam, alongside Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, and Sawm. The gathering during Hajj is considered the largest annual gathering of people in the world. The state of being physically and financially capable of performing the Hajj is called istita'ah, and a Muslim who fulfills this condition is called a mustati.
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Saturday July 17, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday July 20, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Behdeinkhlam - Wednesday July 21, 2021 cards/flowers : Agrarian festival that asks God to chase away plagues and diseases and to bless the people with good health and a bountiful
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| Racial Harmony Day - Wednesday July 21, 2021 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Saturday July 24, 2021 cards/flowers : The second main celebration of Islam. It celebrates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son in obedience to God. Muslims make their annual pilgrimage, or the Hajj , to Makkah (Mecca) in Saudi Arabia.
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| Regional holiday - Sunday July 25, 2021 cards/flowers : Epistle of Saint James in Girona only
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| Parents' Day - Sunday July 25, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Christmas in July - Sunday July 25, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday July 25, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Arbor Day - Sunday July 25, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Earthquake Mourning - Monday July 26, 2021 cards/flowers : Remembrance of the 2010 earthquake
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| Sisters' Day - Sunday August 1, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday August 8, 2021 cards/flowers : 8th day of the 8th month
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday August 8, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| El am Hejir New Year (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday August 10, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Thursday August 12, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Assumption - Sunday August 15, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Mothers' Day - Sunday August 15, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Indian National Day - Wednesday August 18, 2021 cards/flowers : To recognize the contributions Indo-St. Lucians have made to the development of the island.
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| Ashura - Wednesday August 18, 2021 cards/flowers : Husayn ibn Ali martyrdom day, killed in the year 680 in Kerbala (Iraq) fighting injustice.
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| Awal Muharram (Maal Hijrah) - Thursday August 19, 2021 cards/flowers : The first day of the year is observed on the first day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar. The first Islamic year beginning in 610 AD during which the emigration of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra [Wikipedia]
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| Isese Day - Friday August 20, 2021 cards/flowers : Traditional celebration observed by the Osun community
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| European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism - Monday August 23, 2021 cards/flowers : Kommunismi ja natsismi ohvrite mälestuspäev: Day when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939.
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| Sri Krishna Jayanthi (Janmashtami) - Saturday August 28, 2021 cards/flowers : Krishna (literally black , dark , dark-blue ) is a Hindu deity, regarded as an avatar of Vishnu and in some traditions considered the Supreme Being. Krishna is often depicted as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana or as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita. The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions.They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero and the Supreme Being.
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| Grandparents Day - Sunday August 29, 2021 cards/flowers : To honor grandparents, to give grandparents an opportunity to show love for their children's children, and to help children become aware of strength, information, and guidance older people can offer.
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| National Day on Detained-Missing People - Monday August 30, 2021 cards/flowers : From 2007 onwards
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| Teachers' Day - Friday September 3, 2021 cards/flowers : NOT a public holiday
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| Sri Krishna Jayanthi (Janmashtami) - Friday September 3, 2021 cards/flowers : Krishna (literally black , dark , dark-blue ) is a Hindu deity, regarded as an avatar of Vishnu and in some traditions considered the Supreme Being. Krishna is often depicted as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana or as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita. The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions.They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero and the Supreme Being.
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday September 5, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Rosh Hashanah - Tuesday September 7, 2021 cards/flowers : Jewish New Year NOT a public holiday
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| Nuestra Señora del Pino (Las Palmas only) - Wednesday September 8, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Grandparents Day - Sunday September 12, 2021 cards/flowers : To honor grandparents, to give grandparents an opportunity to show love for their children's children, and to help children become aware of strength, information, and guidance older people can offer The official flower of the Grandparents Day is the forget-me-not
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| Family Day - Sunday September 12, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| All Souls' Day - Monday September 13, 2021 cards/flowers : Commemoration of the Faithful Departed Day (Merelots)
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| Yom Kippur - Thursday September 16, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Fathers' Day - Sunday September 19, 2021 cards/flowers :
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| Day of Mourning - Monday September 20, 2021 cards/flowers : President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996. On 20 September 2011, Rabbani was assassinated by a suicide bomber entering his home in Kabul.
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| International Day of the Bosnian - Tuesday September 28, 2021 cards/flowers :
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