November 25

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79 holidays recorded on November 25 throughout history

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Catholics honor Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Blessed Elizabeth of Reute today, celebrating two figures defined b…

Catholics honor Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Blessed Elizabeth of Reute today, celebrating two figures defined by their intellectual and spiritual devotion. Catherine’s tradition as a patron of scholars and philosophers highlights the historical intersection of faith and reason, while Elizabeth’s life of humble service in the Third Order of Saint Francis offers a model of quiet, persistent piety.

Three sisters.

Three sisters. That's what started this. In 1960, the Mirabal sisters — Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa — were ambushed in the Dominican Republic on Trujillo's orders. Three were killed. Their deaths sparked such outrage that dictator Rafael Trujillo fell within months. The UN officially designated November 25th in their memory in 1999. But here's the reframe: Dedé survived, lived until 2014, and spent decades keeping their story alive. The holiday isn't just about loss. It's about her.

November 25 marks a dense cluster of Eastern Orthodox commemorations — saints, martyrs, and holy figures remembered a…

November 25 marks a dense cluster of Eastern Orthodox commemorations — saints, martyrs, and holy figures remembered across centuries of Byzantine tradition. But here's what surprises most people: the Orthodox liturgical calendar doesn't just honor the famous. It remembers ordinary believers who died in obscurity, their names preserved only because monks kept copying manuscripts through wars, fires, and conquests. Someone kept writing. Someone kept carrying those lists forward. And because of that quiet, stubborn devotion, names that might have vanished entirely are still spoken aloud today.

New York City once threw a massive annual party to celebrate the British leaving.

New York City once threw a massive annual party to celebrate the British leaving. November 25, 1783 — the day the last redcoats boarded ships and sailed out of New York Harbor — became a bigger deal than the Fourth of July for generations of New Yorkers. They paraded. They cheered. They literally greased flagpoles. But by the early 1900s, nobody cared anymore. The holiday quietly died. And the detail nobody mentions: it shared the calendar with Thanksgiving, which eventually swallowed it whole.

Before becoming a national celebration, Indonesia's Teachers' Day nearly didn't survive its first decade.

Before becoming a national celebration, Indonesia's Teachers' Day nearly didn't survive its first decade. November 25th traces back to 1945, when the Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia — the country's teacher union — formally organized just months after independence. Teachers had fought colonialism not just with ideas, but with their lives. Many died. The date honors that founding, but here's what gets overlooked: without literate citizens, Indonesia's independence meant almost nothing. Teachers were the infrastructure. They still are.

King Vajiravudh ruled Thailand for just 15 years, but he invented something millions of Thais carry today: their surn…

King Vajiravudh ruled Thailand for just 15 years, but he invented something millions of Thais carry today: their surnames. Before his 1913 Surname Act, most Thais used only one name. He personally approved thousands of family names himself — each one unique, many drawn from Sanskrit. And he did it one by one. The king also introduced compulsory education and founded the Wild Tiger Corps. But it's those surnames, woven into every Thai ID card, that make him impossible to forget.

A woman asked her midwife to stop.

A woman asked her midwife to stop. The midwife didn't. That single, repeated moment — across hospitals worldwide — became the wound Roses Revolution addresses every November 25th. Activists chose roses because survivors deserve beauty, not just justice. The campaign began in Spain, where mothers started naming what happened to them in delivery rooms. Obstetric violence finally had language. And language meant legal cases, policy changes, entire birth protocols rewritten. The rose isn't soft symbolism. It has thorns.

A French nun claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to her three times in 1830 — and nobody believed her for 46 years.

A French nun claimed the Virgin Mary appeared to her three times in 1830 — and nobody believed her for 46 years. Catherine Labouré kept the secret so completely that even her own religious superiors didn't know she was the visionary behind the Miraculous Medal, worn by millions worldwide. She told only her confessor. She spent decades scrubbing floors and caring for elderly men in a Paris hospice. And when her identity was finally revealed? She died just months later. The silence itself became the miracle.

The Dutch parliament didn't even want to let them go.

The Dutch parliament didn't even want to let them go. When Suriname pushed for independence in 1975, the Netherlands actually tried slowing the process — worried about the small South American nation's stability. But November 25th arrived anyway. Almost immediately, a massive wave of Surinamese emigrated to the Netherlands, roughly one-third of the entire population, fearing economic collapse. And they weren't wrong to worry. Five years later, a military coup shook everything. Independence came, but it arrived complicated, contested, and costly.

Isaac Watts couldn't sleep as a child — and complained about it constantly.

Isaac Watts couldn't sleep as a child — and complained about it constantly. His father, tired of the whining, challenged him: write something better than the dull psalms you hate so much. So he did. Watts went on to write over 750 hymns, including "Joy to the World" and "O God, Our Help in Ages Past." He essentially invented the English hymn as we know it. The boy who grumbled about boring church music ended up writing the soundtrack to it.

A Harvard-educated lawyer's son gave up everything.

A Harvard-educated lawyer's son gave up everything. James Otis Sargent Huntington took his vows in 1884, founding the Order of the Holy Cross — the first permanent monastic order for men in American Episcopal history. But here's the twist: the Episcopal Church had officially discouraged monasticism for centuries. Huntington didn't care. He worked New York's poorest slums, advocating for labor rights alongside his prayers. And the church that once resisted him now commemorates his feast day annually. The radical became the calendar.

A secret meeting deep in the forests of Jajce, November 25, 1943.

A secret meeting deep in the forests of Jajce, November 25, 1943. German troops occupied most of the country. Yet 173 delegates gathered anyway — partisans, intellectuals, ordinary Bosnians — to vote Bosnia and Herzegovina back into existence as a distinct entity within a future Yugoslav federation. They did it by candlelight. The Germans were miles away. That single vote, cast mid-war with no guarantee anyone would survive to see it matter, became the legal foundation for the modern Bosnian state fifty years later.

Undated 67

Voir aussi : 11 novembre pour les célibataires en Asie,

Voir aussi : les 30 mai pour les jeannettes,

Voir aussi : les 24 mars & 29 avril pour des sainte(s) Catherine davantage fêtées ailleurs en Europe et chrétienté ;

Voir aussi : les 14 février pour les amoureux (« symétriquement » avec les catherinettes célibataires du 25 novembre) ;

Voir aussi : les 31 décembre pour le décès de Sainte Catherine Labouré ;

Voir aussi : les 27 novembre, 28 novembre (apparitions à Sainte Catherine Labouré à ne pas confondre avec "la présent…

Voir aussi : les 27 novembre, 28 novembre (apparitions à Sainte Catherine Labouré à ne pas confondre avec "la présente" Catherine d'Alexandrie du 25 novembre, l'une des voix qui se seraient adressées à Jeanne d'Arc auprès de son "arbre aux fées" de Domrémy-Greux aux confins des Vosges, de la Lorraine et de la France de son temps, avec Sainte Marguerite et l'archange Saint Michel),

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... les Carine et Karine, Carina, Karina, Karyna etc. étant plutôt célébrées les 7 novembre, le même mois.

et aux porteurs de variants masculins : Catherin, Catalin, Cathalin (etc.

et aux porteurs de variants masculins : Catherin, Catalin, Cathalin (etc. ?).

aux porteuses de ses nombreuses variantes et diminutifs : Caitrin, Caitriona, Catalin, Catalina, Catalineta, Cataline…

aux porteuses de ses nombreuses variantes et diminutifs : Caitrin, Caitriona, Catalin, Catalina, Catalineta, Catalinetta, Catarineta, Catarinetta, Catalyn, Catalyna, Catarina, Cateau (comme "la Borgnesse"), Cateline, Caterina, Cathalin, Cathalyn, Catharine, Catheline, Cathie, Cathy, Catriona, Catterina, Ekaterina, Iekaterina, Iekateryna, Kasia, Kassia, Katalin, Katalyn, Katalina, Katalyna, Katarina, Katarzyna, Kate, Katel, Katell, Katelle, Kateri, Katerina, Katharina, Katharine, Katharyn(e), Kathel, Kathell, Kathelle, Katherina, Katherine, Kathie, Kathleen, Kathlin, Kathlyn, Kathryn, Kathy, Katie, Katrine, Katrina, Katryne, Katryna, Katy, Katia, Katya, Kay, Kety, Ketty, Yekaterina, Yekateryna, Cat(h), Anne-Catherine, Anne-Cat(h)' etc. ;

Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi (1880 - 1951), et son épouse Maria Corsini (1884 - 1965), bienheureux couple italien,.

Hyacinthe Serrano Lopez († 1936), bienheureux prêtre dominicain martyr lors de la guerre civile espagnole.

Conrad d'Heisterbach († 1200), bienheureux, officier puis ministre des margraves de Thuringe, qui se retira humblemen…

Conrad d'Heisterbach († 1200), bienheureux, officier puis ministre des margraves de Thuringe, qui se retira humblement et pauvrement à l'abbaye cistercienne d'Heisterbach, vers l'âge de 50 ans.

Béatrice d'Eymeux († 1303), bienheureuse, née au village d'Ornacieux, en actuelle Isère - entra à la chartreuse de No…

Béatrice d'Eymeux († 1303), bienheureuse, née au village d'Ornacieux, en actuelle Isère - entra à la chartreuse de Notre-Dame de Parménie, - fonda la chartreuse d'Eymeux (actuelle Drôme), où elle mourut le 25 novembre 1303 ; fêtée aussi le 13 février.

Réol de Reims († 698), évêque.

Pierre l'Hésychaste (Ve siècle), Ermite.

Moïse († 251), Prêtre martyr à Rome.

Mercure de Césarée († entre 250), jeune militaire d'origine scythe, décapité à Césarée de Cappadoce en Asie mineure.

Maurin de l'Agenais (VIe siècle), diacre, évangélisateur de la campagne agenaise, en France occitane.

Marcule († 347), évêque et martyr.

Joconde de Reggio († 466), vierge et fille spirituelle de saint Prosper de Reggio, évêque de Reggio, en Émilie-Romagne.

Bernold d'Ottobeuren (de) († vers 1050), bienheureux, moine et prêtre, au monastère d'Ottobeuren, en Bavière.

Alain de Lavaur (VIIe siècle), honoré à Lavaur, dans la région d'Albi, patron de la cathédrale de l'ancien évêché de …

Alain de Lavaur (VIIe siècle), honoré à Lavaur, dans la région d'Albi, patron de la cathédrale de l'ancien évêché de Lavaur ; pourrait être la même personne que saint Amand de Maastricht.

San Gonzalo de Mondoñedo.

Santa Jucunda.

San Márculo.

San Maurino.

San Mercurio de Capadocia.

San Moisés Mártir.

San Pedro Yi Hoyong.

San Riel.

Beata Beatriz de Ornacieux.

Beata Isabel Achler.

Beato Jacinto Serrano López.

Beata María Beltrame Quattrocchi.

Dia Internacional para a Eliminação da Violência Contra as Mulheres

Dia da Baiana de Acarajé

Dia do Doador Voluntário de Sangue

Aniversário do município de Campestre, Alagoas

Aniversário do município de Santana do Cariri, Ceará

Aniversário dos municípios de Varre-Sai, Guapimirim, Quatis e Queimados, Rio de Janeiro.

Aniversário dos municípios de Amparo do São Francisco, Carira, Malhador, Tomar do Geru e Itabi, Sergipe.

Aniversário dos municípios de Cafelândia, Inácio Martins, Marmeleiro e Vera Cruz do Oeste, Paraná.

Feriado municipal de Santa Catarina

Beato Nicolás Stenso.

Beato Santiago Meseguer Burillo.

Margherita Occhiena

San Dubricio.

San Alano de la Roca.

San Erasmo.

San Adelardo de Corbie.

SurinamSurinam Surinam: Día de la Independencia.

HondurasHonduras Honduras: Día de la Flor Nacional.

Estados Unidos Estados Unidos: Día del Recordatorio de Compras.(en inglés: Shopping Reminder Day).

Estados Unidos Estados Unidos: Día de la Sopa Gazpacho.

Estados Unidos Estados Unidos: Día de la Sopa Gazpacho. Sopa fría española a base de tomate.(en inglés: Gazpacho Soup Day).

Estados Unidos Estados Unidos: Día del Parfait.

Estados Unidos Estados Unidos: Día del Parfait. Postre de origen francés que es una combinación de frutas y helado que se suele servir en vasos alargados.(en inglés: National Parfait Day).

Argentina Argentina: Día Nacional de la Paleontología.

Argentina Argentina: Día Nacional de la Paleontología. Misiones: Aniversario de Caá Yarí.Fundación: 25 de noviembre de 1940 (85 años).

Argentina Argentina: Día de la Hotelería y Gastronomía Argentina.En conmemoración de la fundación de la Federación Em…

Argentina Argentina: Día de la Hotelería y Gastronomía Argentina.En conmemoración de la fundación de la Federación Empresaria Hotelera Gastronómica de la República Argentina (FEHGRA), un día como hoy en 1941.

Argentina Argentina: Día del Marino Mercante.En conmemoración de la fecha de 1799 en la que se fundó la Escuela Nacio…

Argentina Argentina: Día del Marino Mercante.En conmemoración de la fecha de 1799 en la que se fundó la Escuela Nacional de Náutica por iniciativa de Manuel Belgrano.