August 16 - Holidays


Holidays and observances

  • Children's Day (Paraguay)
  • Christian Feast Day
    • Roch
    • Simplician
    • Stephen I of Hungary
    • August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Commemoration of the translation of the Acheiropoietos icon from Edessa to Constantinople. This "Shroud of Constantinople" is believed to be the Shroud of Turin. (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Gozan no Okuribi (Kyoto, Japan)
  • Xicolatada (Palau-de-Cerdagne, France)

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