Holidays and observances
Holidays and observances on May 13
12 holidays and special days are celebrated on May 13 around the world.
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Holidays and observances
Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, England)Abbotsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village is located around 7+1⁄2 miles (12 km) west southwest of Dorchester and 1 mile (1.6 km) inland from the English Channel coast. In the 2021 census the civil parish had a popula
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André-Hubert FournetAndré-Hubert Fournet was a French Roman Catholic priest and together with Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages the founder of the Daughters of the Holy Cross, Sisters of St. Andrew. Fournet had a disdain for religion in his childhood but became a priest due to th
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Our Lady of FátimaOur Lady of Fátima is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal. The three children were Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta
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Conchita Barrecheguren (Roman Catholic)Maria Concepción Barrecheguren García, also known as Conchita Barrecheguren, was a young Spanish Catholic laywoman. She was beatified on 6 May, 2023.
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Gerard of VillamagnaGerard of Villamagna - known also as Gerard Mecatti and Gerard of Monza - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed member of the Order of Saint John and the Third Order of Saint Francis. Pope Gregory XVI beatified him on 18 March 1833.
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GlyceriaSaint Glyceria was a Roman virgin of the early church.
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John the Silent (Roman Catholic)John the Silent, also known as "John the Hesychast", was a Christian saint known for living alone for 76 years. He was given the surname because of his affinity for recollection and silence. His feast day is May 13 in the General Roman Calendar of the Catholic
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Julian of Norwich (Roman Catholic)Julian of Norwich, also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed t
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Frances Perkins (Episcopal Church (USA))Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Party, Perkins was the first woman ever to serve in a presiden
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ServatiusSaint Servatius was bishop of Tongeren. Servatius is patron saint of the city of Maastricht and the towns of Schijndel and Grimbergen. His feast day is 13 May and he is one of the Ice Saints whose feast days fall in mid May.
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May 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)May 12 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 14- Rotuma Day (Rotuma)Rotuma Day is an annual celebration on the island of Rotuma, a Fijian dependency. It falls on May 13, the anniversary of the island's cession to the United Kingdom in 1881.
Frequently asked questions
What is celebrated on May 13?
12 observances are celebrated on May 13 around the world: Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, England), Christian feast day: André-Hubert Fournet, Christian feast day: Our Lady of Fátima, Christian feast day: Conchita Barrecheguren (Roman Catholic), Christian feast day: Gerard of Villamagna, Christian feast day: Glyceria. The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
What happened on May 13?
59 documented historical events happened on May 13, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Baldwin I of Jerusalem captured Beirut from the Fatimid Caliphate with the help of a Genoese fleet. On the same day, in another year: The English mystic Julian of Norwich recovered from a severe illness during which she experienced a series of intense visions of Christ, which she later described in the first known English-language book written by a woman. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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