World-wide holidays: 08 October

Holidays and observances

• RC Saints - Palatia and Laurentia


• Bolivia - reportedly, Che Guevara is honoured on this day at which he was captured in La Higuera, as San Ernesto, answering prayers for rain.


• Also see October 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)


• French Republican Calendar - Citrouille (Pumpkin) Day, seventeenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire


• Independence Day in Croatia


• Navy Day in Peru