# Happy Holidays! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-holidays/789030 "2017-06-15T15:22:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-holidays/789030/1 "2017-06-15T15:22:21Z")
Just about _every_ day is a holiday, so let’s celebrate the whole year long! For instance, today is _Corpus Christi_-A Christian holiday also known as The Day of Wreaths, it is traditional for adherents to receive their first Communion on this date. It is also _Magna Carta Day_, _Native American Citizenship Day_ and _National Electricity Day_. If you find none of this of interest to you, please note that this is also _Go Fly A Kite Day_. 😃 edited to add: If you wish, this can also be a place to celebrate the your birthday(year definitely optional). ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-holidays/789030/2 "2017-06-15T15:31:54Z")
Today, June 15th, is the international celebration of the anniversary of my birth. Unfortunately, it is only starting to catch on in far-flung lands but I have already received notification of bells ringing in many states and several countries that observe it strictly. My officemate is a Jehovah’s Witness. They don’t celebrate holidays so I make it a point to look up what holiday it is every morning and tell him what he is missing out on. It isn’t as mean as it sounds. He has a good sense of humor and most days are quite obscure. I always point out that it is impossible not to celebrate some holidays like Labor Day if you have the day off. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2017, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-holidays/789030/3 "2017-06-15T15:41:46Z")
Be careful, I celebrated St. Swithun’s Day in April by accident and then it rained for the next 40 days. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-holidays/789030/4 "2017-06-16T07:39:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Just about _every_ day is a holiday, so let’s celebrate the whole year long! > For instance, today is _Corpus Christi_-A Christian holiday also known as The Day of Wreaths, it is traditional for adherents to receive their first Communion on this date. It is also _Magna Carta Day_, _Native American Citizenship Day_ and _National Electricity Day_. If you find none of this of interest to you, please note that this is also _Go Fly A Kite Day_. 😃 > > edited to add: If you wish, this can also be a place to celebrate the your birthday(year definitely optional). In Spain, First Communions traditionally take place in the Sundays between Resurrection Sunday and Corpus, both excluded. The children who have taken First Communion during that year will take part in the Corpus Christi parade. Perhaps the most famous of these is the one held in [Sitges](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L93ha4VB00) over tapestries made of flowers. Corpus is “the” big holiday in many towns, but it used to be a national holiday, so local governments didn’t need to use up one of the days in their local-holiday allotment for it: in the year in which the central government removed it from the calendar without previous warning (and in fact outside the proper dates for it), it is said that everybody in Sitges got a doctor’s note saying that they could not work for 24 hours and should go for a walk. Today’s saints include St Ciriaco or Quirico, which is sometimes translated as “Michael” but isn’t the one with the flashy colored wings.