Paphos People

Here are the 2023 holiday dates.
REPUBLIC of CYPRUS
January 06 Epiphany
Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi

February 27 Green Monday (orthodox)
Green Monday, which is also known as Clean Monday, Pure Monday and Ash Monday, is the first day of the Greek Orthodox Great Lent. It occurs in the beginning of the 7th week before Easter Sunday. The day is celebrated in Cyprus by outdoor excursions, kite flying and consumption of seafood and other non-meat product.

Friday, March 25 Greek National Holiday (celebrated in Cyprus)

Friday, April 01 Greek Cypriot National Day
1st April 1955 - This day marks the start of the EOKA rebellion for Cyprus to obtain independence from Great Britain

April 14 Orthodox Good Friday
Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal tritium on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover


April 16 Orthodox Easter Sunday

April 17 Orthodox Easter Monday
This is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion. Easter is the culmination of the passion of Christ, preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. In the Eastern Orthodox Church Easter Monday is known as "Bright Monday" or "Renewal Monday". The services that day, as in the rest of Bright Week, are quite different than during the rest of the year and are similar to the services on Pascha (Easter Sunday) and include an outdoor procession after the Divine Liturgy; while this is prescribed for all days of that week, often they are only celebrated on Monday and maybe a couple of other days in parish churches, especially in non-Orthodox countries. Also, when the calendar date of the feast day of a major saint, e.g., St George or the patron saint of a church or one's name day, falls during Holy Week or on Easter Sunday, the saint's day is celebrated on Easter Monday.

May 1 Labour Day

June 5 Orthodox Whitsun / Pentecost / Kataklysmos
Pentecost (Greek word which means 'fiftieth)
Kataklysmos (50 days after Greek Easter) Kataklysmos is a Greek Orthodox festival with strong pagan roots focusing primarily on water, Kataklysmos or Festival of the Flood marks the day of the Holy Spirit. In Cyprus, the celebrations also hark back to the Old Testament tale of Noah’s Ark, the Greek myth of Deukalion and ancient ceremonies in honour of Aphrodite and Adonis



August 15 Assumption Day / Dormition of the Virgin Mary
This is the second most important religious holiday in the Greek Orthodox calendar. This is the day of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Mother of Jesus. According to Greek Orthodoxy this is the day that Jesus Christ had taken Mary's body to heaven after her soul and reunited them, as a foretaste of the forthcoming general resurrection

October 1 Cyprus Independence Day
1st October 1960 - Cyprus gains its independence from Great Britain and becomes a democracy.

October 28 Ochi day
This is celebrated throughout Greece and Cyprus as Ochi Day (No Day). On the 28th of October 1940 when the then Greek leader Ioannis Metaxas, was presented with an ultimatum by the Italians to let Axis forces enter Greece or face war .Ioannis Metaxas allegedly replied with a single word to the ultimatum OCHI which is the Greek word for NO.


December 24 / 25 / 26

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