16JUL2018 - Holiday Today - Chile, Japan

Chile - Feast of Out Lady of Mount Carmel
Feast of Out Lady of Mount Carmel is annually celebrated in Chile on July 16. This public holiday was established in 2007 and it replaced an official holiday of Corpus Christi.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel is one of the titles, given to the Blessed Virgin Mary, since she is a patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits, who lived on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land in the end of the 12th century – beginning of the 13th century. They built a chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary (present-day Carmelite Monastery in Haifa).

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Japan - Marine Day
The third Monday in July is Marine Day (also known as Sea Day and Ocean Day). This is a Japanese national holiday, that praises sea and its bounties.
The holiday of Marine Day was created in 1941 by then-Minister of Communications Shozo Murata to commemorate the voyage of Meiji Emperor in 1876. He made a voyage in an iron steamship Meiji-Maru, constructed in Scotland in 1874. His voyage included a trip around the Tōhoku region (Honshu Island), embarking on a lighthouse boat in Aomori and a brief stop in Hakodate, after that he returned to Yokihama on July 20 of the same year.

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