Today, Christians celebrate Saint Jeremiah (May Yahweh arise). He is the second of the four great prophets, a Judaic prophet of the Tanakh and the Old Testament and the presumed author (without certainty) of the Book of Jeremiah. He is a contemporary of one of the two minor prophets Zephaniah. Jeremiah made many prophecies for which he was brutalized, exiled or put in prison. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 1 #Jeremiah #Christianity #Tanakh
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day of the cross
May 3, 2024
Today in El Salvador is the Day of the Cross. Families decorate a Jiote cross with fruits and paper ornaments. This Salvadoran tradition dates back to colonial times and marks the beginning of the rainy or winter season in the country. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #salvador #crossday #3may
Saint Philip the Apostle and Saint James the Less
May 3, 2024
Today, Christians celebrate Saint Philip (the apostle, not the evangelist). He is one of the twelve apostles of the New Testament. He preached in Greece, Syria and Asia Minor. James the Less has an unclear identity (son of Alphaeus; brother of Jesus, cousin of Jesus?), he became head of the Church of Jerusalem and played a very important role in the beginnings of the Judeo-Christian religion. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #3May #SaintPhilippe #SaintJacques #Christianity
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Florian de Lorch
May 4, 2024
Today, Christians celebrate Saint Florian (Florian of Lorch). He is said to have saved a village from a fire by praying and symbolically having a bucket of water thrown at him to put it out; this is why it is associated with firefighters and all those who protect against fire, including chimney sweeps. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #4May #SaintFlorian #Christianity
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Saint Cyril and Methodius
May 11, 2024
Today the Orthodox celebrate the Synaxis of Saint Cyril and Methodius. These two brothers evangelized the Slavic peoples of Central Europe and are nicknamed the apostles of the Slavs. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 11 #cyril #methodius
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Candles Festival
May 15, 2024
Today is the Candle Festival in Umbria and Perugia (Italy). Tradition has it that it is a celebration dedicated to Sant'Ubaldo Baldassini, citizen, bishop and patron of Gubbio. This festival would be the commemoration of a gift of wax that the medieval corporations of the city offered to the patron saint. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 15 #festadeiceri #ombria #Perouse
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Saint Brendan
May 16, 2024
Today, the Irish commemorate Saint Brendan, nicknamed the navigator. The account of his journey is linked to an Irish tradition of initiatory journeys containing obligatory passages, the imrama. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #ireland #May 16 #saintbrendan
honored Saint
May 16, 2024
Today, Christians celebrate Saint Honoré of Amiens. Patron saint of bakers and of Picardy, his legend comes from a donation from a baker to build a chapel for the bishop. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Christianity #Honore #May 16
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Pentecost
May 19, 2024
Today, Christians celebrate Pentecost. It celebrates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the fiftieth day from Easter on a group of disciples of Jesus of Nazareth, including the Twelve Apostles. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Pentecost
Today, the Bretons celebrate Saint Yves or Gouel Erwann. He is the patron saint of sailors, lawyers and jurists in Brittany. Saint-Yves is at the origin of the Brittany festival. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 19 #SaintYves #GouelErwann #Bretagne
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Saint Constantine the Great
May 22, 2024
Today, Christians commemorate Augustine I. This Roman emperor put an end to the Christian persecutions by the edict of Milan. He also created the capital of Constantinople and solidified the borders against the Germans. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 22 #ConstantinI #Constantinople #EditFromMilan
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Lag BaOmer
May 25, 2024
Today, Jews celebrate Lag BaOmer. The holiday is mentioned for the first time in medieval rabbinical literature which links it to Rabbi Akiva. A tradition strongly associates him with Rabbi Shimon bar Yohaï, legendary author of the Zohar, while Zionism celebrates the valor of Shimon bar Kokhba. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #18iyar #LagBaOmer #RabbiShimon #Judaism
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Celebrates God
May 30, 2024
Today, Christians celebrate Corpus Christi or Corpus Christi. It is an essentially Catholic religious holiday designated on the Thursday following Trinity, that is to say sixty days after Easter, or the Sunday after in certain countries such as France. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Christianity #FeastGod #CorpusChristi
Today, Christians celebrate the visitation of the Virgin Mary. The feast of the Visitation commemorates an episode from the Gospel according to Luke: the visit that Mary, pregnant with Christ, pays to her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #Virgin Mary #May 31