Re: St Brigid's Day (3 February)

On 4/02/2025 7:25 p.m., Aidan Kehoe wrote:

   Ar an triú lá de mí Feabhra, scríobh Steve Hayes:
   > On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 01:34:19 +0000, HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> wrote:
  >
  > >St. Brigid's Day, celebrated on February 1st, marks the beginning of
  > >spring in Ireland and honors St. Brigid, one of Ireland's patron saints.
  >
  > There seems to be a discrepancy in the dates between the subject line
  > and the body.
  >
  > Is there a newsgroup for discussing chronology, which seems to cause a
  > lot of confusion?
 No comment on that, but we had a bank holiday here yesterday, 2025-03-03 to
celebrate St Brigid’s day, since the actual day fell on a Saturday.
 

Yes, thanks. I wrote a comment in reply to Steve's "chronology" question -- which comment seems to have vanished into Interspace.
The point was simply that many saints' days, as well as famous people's birthdays, are similarly treated by modern states. This may consist of simply adding a legal holiday close to the actual date of commemoration.
I gave the example of Japan:
23 February  Emperor's Birthday
24 February Emperor's Birthday Holiday
But the real days remain. I would guess that in Ireland there were people out performing the customs of St Brigid's day on the Saturday, who didn't mind also having a day off work on Monday.