National Holidays in Greece in 2024
Upcoming Holidays in Greece
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: New Year's Day
- New Year's Day is a public holiday in all countries that observe the Gregorian calendar, with the exception of Israel
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: Epiphany
- Commemorates Christ's baptism by John the Baptist in the river Jordan.
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: Clean Monday
- Also known as Ash Monday. Clean Monday begins the season of Great Lent in Eastern Orthodox Churches
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: Greek Independence Day
- Greece's Independence Day is actually a holiday that has blended over time with an older festival - the feast of the Annunciation
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: Orthodox Good Friday
- Easter is the principal festival of Greece and the Orthodox Church
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: Great Saturday
- Orthodox Holy Saturday takes place on the Day before Orthodox Easter.
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: Orthodox Easter Day
- Easter is the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. In the bible, it is the day when Mary Magdalene found that an empty tomb in the cave in which Jesus has been placed after his crucifixion.
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: Orthodox Easter Monday
- The Orthodox church uses the Julian calendar for the calculation of Easter, which can often mean that Orthodox Easter falls later than Easter observed elsewhere
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: Protomagia (in lieu)
- While officially Labour Day, the first day of May in Greece is associated with the custom of Protomagia, a celebration of the awakening of nature after a long period of winter.
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: Orthodox Pentecost
- Orthodox Pentecost Sunday, also known as Holy Spirit Sunday, is observed fifty days after Orthodox Easter.
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: Holy Spirit Monday
- Orthodox Pentecost Monday, also known as Holy Spirit Monday, is observed fifty days (approx. seven weeks) after Orthodox Easter.
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: Dormition of the Virgin Mary
- The Feast of the Assumption is the principal feast of the Blessed Virgin, the mother of Jesus Christ
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: National Anniversary Day
- Also known as 'World War ΙΙ National Holiday', this holiday celebrates Greece's refusal to yield to the Axis powers in 1940.
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: Christmas Day
- Christmas celebrates the Nativity of Jesus which according to tradition took place on December 25th 1 BC
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: Synaxis of the Mother of God
- The second day of Christmas in the Orthodox Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary
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