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Polonius3Threads: 1,005
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Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂ 		 Jan 5, 12, 18:41    #1
Friday, 6th Jan, is the Feast of the Three Kings or Ephiphany, also known as Twelfth Night. How do you celebrate this occasion in Poland?
In addition to it being a holiday day of obligation* for Catholics, Warsaw and other major Polish cities hold Three Kings cavalcades (orszak Trzech Króli) attended by thousands. How widely is the Migdałowy Król custom practiced in today's Poland?
For the past few years it has been a work-free public holiday in Poland as it was before the Second World War.

*For the benefit of the heathens, apostates and otehr assorted godless types amongst us, failure to attend Holy Mass on a holy day of oblgaiton constitutes the same kind of grave sin as missing Sunday Mass.
Lyzko  Jan 5, 12, 19:39    #2
Must be like 'Die Heiligen Drei Koenige' in Germany and Austria:-))
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Joined: Jan 5, 12 ♂ 		 Jan 5, 12, 19:54    #3
it's work-free, nothing more.
RichfilthThreads: 8
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I don't know about "thousands" or "past few years", but the usual Nowy Swiat rabble were out in Warsaw on Friday for the public show, while holding the sign of their new religion; H&M shopping bags.

It was only remade as a public holiday last year, and most Poles treat it as an excuse for a long weekend at home; it's hardly a pious and noble religious event for most people here.
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Richfilth:
It was only remade as a public holiday last year, and most Poles treat it as an excuse for a long weekend at home; it's hardly a pious and noble religious event for most people here.


It was a great excuse to go to Wroclaw and drink with a friend of mine and his wife. I thoroughly approve - let's make sure that from now on, the 6th of January always falls on a Thursday, Friday, Monday or Tuesday!
HarryThreads: 62
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Personally I found it to be the perfect opportunity to earn in a single day more than enough money for net and food in my week in the Czech republic.
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Polonius3:
*For the benefit of the heathens, apostates and otehr assorted godless types amongst us, failure to attend Holy Mass on a holy day of oblgaiton constitutes the same kind of grave sin as missing Sunday Mass.


Why would us "heathens" care about your definition of sin, if it doesn't apply to us? We might have been at the shul on Friday anyway lol.
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Sidliste_Chodov:
Why would us "heathens" care about your definition of sin, if it doesn't apply to us? We might have been at the shul on Friday anyway lol.


Why are you on this thread like fly on .....if you don't care?

I personally think that you are all Catholics in the closet.
RichfilthThreads: 8
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Ironside:
I personally think that you are all Catholics in the closet.


All Catholics are in the closet already
aphrodisiacThreads: 22
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Richfilth:
All Catholics are in the closet already

good one.
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Richfilth:
All Catholics are in the closet already

Would you say the some about gays ?If not you are a hypocrite if yes, I admit you have a wit, kinda !


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