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What is Whit Sunday or Pentecost Sunday?

Whit Sunday or Pentecost Sunday in France is a Christian observance holiday and there are special services in many of the cathedrals and churches around the country. Pentecost marks the occasion of the Holy Spirit descending on to the followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks.

Pentecost Sunday is celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday so the date varies each year.

The Holy Spirit is symbolised by a white dove and so you will find the white dove associated with the celebration of Whit Sunday and Pentecost Sunday.

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Wishing You a Happy Bastille Day

A Happy Bastille Day or Fête Nationale to you!!

I hope you celebrate with delicious cheese, flaky croissants and bubbly champagne wherever you are around the globe. Francophiles and French nationals let’s get together today and celebrate what France means to us.

Bastille Day, France’s biggest national event of the year is celebrated on the 14th of July. Known as La Fête de la Bastille or La Fête Nationale, the annual celebration commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 and the first major event of the French Revolution of 1789.

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Whit Sunday or Pentecost Sunday in France

What is Whit Sunday or Pentecost Sunday?

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Happy Bastille Day

Wishing You a Happy Bastille Day

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