September 17:: World-wide Holidays

Holidays and observances

• The fourth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.


• RC Saints - Feasts of Saint Lambert (martyr), Hildegard of Bingen, Albert Avogadro.


• Also see September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).


• Angola - National Heroes' Day.


• Netherlands - Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.


• United States - Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day.


• Christian martyrs Socrates and Stephen