November 16 - Holidays

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Edmund of Abingdon
  • Eucherius of Lyon
  • Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic church)
  • Lebuinus
  • Margaret of Scotland
  • Matthew the Evangelist (Eastern Christianity)
  • Saint Othmar
  • November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia)
• Day of Repentance and Prayer or Buß- und Bettag (the Protestant church bodies of Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United. A school holiday in Saxony and Bavaria)
• Icelandic Language Day or Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Iceland)
• International Day for Tolerance (International)