Twin Holy Days (Bahá’í)
Commemorates the birth of The Bab, Herald of the Baha'i Faith & founder of the Babi Faith, in 1819. Work is to be suspended and children excused from school. More […]
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October
Navaratri (Hindu)
The festival literally means “nine nights” in Sanskrit and occurs over ten days and nine nights. It is celebrated differently in various parts of India with prayer, elaborate pandals (platforms), […]
Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi (Catholic)
Today, Catholics celebrate Francis of Assisi, who abandoned a life of luxury for a life devoted to Christian poverty, interreligious dialogue and peacemaking. He is the founder of an order […]
Sukkot (Jewish)
Sukkot is a seven-day festival marking the fall harvest in ancient Israel. This holiday is also a time in which Jews commemorate forty years of wandering in the desert after the […]
Simchat Torah (Jewish)
Coming at the conclusion of Sukkot are the two holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah . In Israel and among more liberal Jews they are combined into one holiday on the day after the conclusion […]
Twin Holy Days (Bahá’í)
Commemorates the birth of The Bab, Herald of the Baha'i Faith & founder of the Babi Faith, in 1819. Work is to be suspended and children excused from school. More […]
