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HOLIDAYS FOR THE PATRIARCHAL CURIA FOR THE YEAR 2012

1st January:         Solemnity of the B.V.M., Mother of God & New Year’s Day
16th January:         Feast of Blessed Joseph Vaz, Patron of our Archdiocese
26th January: Republic Day
29th March: Anticipated Chrism Mass 
5th -7th April: Easter Triduum 
10th April: Episcopal Ordination Day of our Archbishop-Patriarch
19th April: Day of Election of Pope Benedict XVI
1st  May:         Feast of St. Joseph the Worker (Worker’s Day)   
15th August:              Solemnity of Assumption of the B.V.M,/Independence Day
20th August: Id-Ul-Fitr (subject to appearance of the moon)
20th  September: Ganesh Chaturthi (2nd Day)
2nd  October: Gandhi Jayanti
2nd  November: All Souls Day
13th November:          Diwali                     
3rd  December: Solemnity of St. Francis Xavier
8th  December: Solemnity of Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M.
19th December: Goa Liberation Day 
24th-26th December:  Christmas Holidays
 
Archbishop’s House, Panjim, Goa, 10th November, 2011.

                                                                              Sd/-
              ( Fr. Manuel Ubaldo Dias )
                                                                          Chancellor 

Golden Verse

Daniel 5:30

That same night, king Belshazzar the Chaldean was killed.