Wednesday, June 8, 2022

May Ceremonies, Festivals, and Rituals

May 1, May Day, Beltane

May 2, Last day of Ridvan, the Baha’i festival when no work can be done

May 3, Dia de la Crus, Day of the Holy Cross in Mexico and South America

May 4, Feast of Bona Dea, a Roman women’s mystery rite

May 5, Mexico’s Cinco de Mayo; Children’s Day in Japan

May 6, National Day of Prayer (United States)

May 7, St. Nicola, pilgrimage of the Italian Christian hero

May 8, Festival of the Roman goddess of the mind, Mens, from whom Mensa takes its name

May 9, Lemuria, when Romans banished ghosts from their homes

May 10, Women’s rights hero Victoria Woodhull is the first woman nominated for president in 1872

May 11, Anniversary of the year 330 CE, Roman ritual rededication of Byzantium to Constantinople

May 12, International Midwives Day

May 13, Portuguese Pilgrimage to Fatima

May 14, Mercuralia, Festival of Mercury

May 15, International Day of Families

May 16, French processions on Saint Honoratus Day, patron saint of all bakers

May 17, Norwegian Independence Day 

May 18, International Museum Day

May 19, Holiday of Poetry (Turkmenistan) 

May 20, Cuba’s Independence Day

May 21, Anastenaria, Greek fire-walking festival

May 22, World Biodiversity Day

May 23, The American Civil War ends, 1865—celebrate national unity

May 24, Slovenian Sveti Kiril I Metodi 

May 25, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birthday

May 26, Birth of Isadora Duncan (1878), self-proclaimed Dionysian ritual dancer and choreographer

May 27, St. Augustine of Canterbury Day, make a pilgrimage to a local shrine or holy place

May 28, John Muir founds the Sierra Club (1892)

May 29, Oak Apple Day in England

May 30, Memorial Day or Decoration Day

May 31, Flores de Mayo, last day of flowers, or May Day

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