:This is a list of
holidays in
Saint Lucia.
* 1-2 January:
New Year's Day
* 22 February:
Independence Day, from the UK, 1979
* (variable):
Good Friday
* (variable):
Easter Monday
* 1 May: Labour Day
* (variable):
Whit Monday
Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday, also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit, is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian liturgical calendar. It is moveable because it is determined by the date of Easter. I ...
* (variable):
Corpus Christi
* (variable):
Carnival Monday
* 1 August:
Emancipation Day, commemorates the liberation of slaves in 1834.
* First Monday in October:
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Brazil and Philippines. It is also observed in the Netherlander town of Leiden ...
* 13 December:
National Day, Feast of
Saint Lucy
Lucia of Syracuse (283–304), also called Saint Lucia ( la, Sancta Lucia) better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman people, Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, ...
, patron saint of the island.
* 25 December:
Christmas Day
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, ...
* 26 December:
Boxing Day
References
{{North America in topic, Public holidays in
Saint Lucia