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St. Valentine’s Day

There are several legends about St. Valentine’s Day. One of the legends says that Valentine was an Italian bishop. He was thrown into prison because he secretly married couples, contrary to the laws of the Roman empire. The legend says that he was burnt at the stake.

St. Valentine’s Day

February 14 was also a Roman holiday, held in honour of a goddess. Young men chose the name of a young girl to escort to the festivals.

St. Valentine’s Day is now a day for sweethearts. It is the day that you show your friend or loved one that you care.

Mother’s Day         

Mother’s Day came to be celebrated in the UK in the 17 th  century as Mothering Sunday. Today, the traditional festival of Mothering Day is commonly called as Mother’s Day in England. On this day children give flowers to their mothers to express their love for them.

Mother’s Day is celebrated in a big way in England. Children pay tribute to their mum and thank them for all their love and support. Flowers record their maximum sale as people in England love to express their gratitude for their mothers by gifting them flowers more than anything else. Most popular flowers on this day are roses. In the UK there is also a tradition of making a rich cake for mothers called Mothers cake.

Easter

Easter is the most important holiday of the year. Although the Christian religion gave the world Easter as we know it today, the celebration owes it’s name and many of it’s customs and symbols to a pagan festival called Easters.

Easters, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of springtime and sunrise, got her name from the world east, where the sun rises.

Every spring northern European peoples celebrated the festival of Easters to honour the awakening of new life in nature.

Christians related the rising of the sun to the resurrection of Jesus and their own spiritual rebirth.

Many modern Easter symbols come from pagan times.

The egg, for instance, was a fertility symbol long before the Christian era.

In Christian times the egg took on a new meaning symbolizing the tomb from which Christ rose. The ancient custom of dying eggs at Easter time is still very popular.

The Easter bunny also originated in pre-Christian fertility lore.

The rabbit was the most fertile animal our ancestors knew so they selected it as a symbol a new life.

Today, children enjoy eating candy bunnies and listening to stories about the Easter bunny, who supposedly brings Easter eggs in a fancy basket.

Easter Monday is the day after Easter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures.

Halloween

Halloween is a festival celebrated on October 31st.

The name of the holiday means “hallowed” or “holy evening” because it happens the day before All Saints Day.

Children go around the neighborhood wearing make-up, and dressed in masks and colourful costumes. The most common costumes are witches, ghosts, skeletons, and popular TV, movie, and storybook characters.

The children go door to door saying “trick or treat.” People give them candies, cookies, fruit, or money.

Homes, stores and classrooms are decorated in the traditional Halloween colours, orange and black. Usual decorations are witches, black cats, ghosts, skeletons, and jack-o-lanterns. Jack-o-lanterns are pumpkins that are carved to look like faces. They are placed on door-way entrances and in windows. Horror movies and ghost stories are shown on TV on this day.

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