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<center><h1>English Holidays and Celebrations:  Whit Monday </h1></center>

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<i>Figure 1.-- Here we see children in Scarborough, Yorkshire at a Whit Monday celebration.  The photograph is undated, but we would guess was taken in the 1900s.  At the time Whitmonday was a bank holiday which was also a school holiday.   Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire coast.  We are guessing that a church somewhere in Yorkshire brough the children to Scarborougj as a treat.  Here the children are enjoying a snack..  Notice all the great caps and hats.   </i>
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<p> Whit Monday or the Second Whitsun in England and former British colonies is known as Pentecost Monday or Monday of the Holy Spirit in other countries. It is celebrated the day after Pentecost, a feast in the Christian calendar which varies from year to year. The actual date depnds on the date set for Easter. Whit Monday became used because of Whitsunday", the English name for Pentecost, one of the three baptismal seasons. The origin of the name 'Whit Sunday' is belived to have developed as a result of the white garments once worn by those baptized on the feast. While Whit Sunday is the English name, the holiday is celebrated in many European countries under a different name, mostly Pentacost Monday. It is no longer a bank holiday in increasingly secular Britain. England and the rest of the United Kindom dropped it (1967). Ireland dropped it (1973). It was replaced by the fixed Spring Bank Holiday on the last Monday in May (1971). It continues to be a public holiday in various former British colonies, especially in the Pacific. 
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Created:  7:43 AM 8/11/2016<br>
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