Holidays and observances
October 12
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Holidays and observances
Christian
feast day
:
Domnina of Anazarbus
[
1
]
Edith Cavell
and
Elizabeth Fry
(
Church of England
)
Fiacc
Our Lady of the Pillar
(
Fiestas del Pilar
)
Our Lady of Aparecida
Blessed
Louis Brisson
Radim Gaudentius
(Czech Republic)
Blessed
Roman Sitko
[
1
]
Seraphin of Montegranaro
[
1
]
Wilfrid of Ripon
Carlo Acutis
[
2
]
October 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Children's Day
(
Brazil
)
Discovery of America by
Columbus
-related observances (
see also
October 8
):
Columbus Day (Honduras)
Día de la Hispanidad
or
Fiesta Nacional de España
, also
Armed Forces Day
(Spain)
Día de la Raza
(
El Salvador
,
Uruguay
)
Día de la Resistencia Indígena
, "Day of Indigenous Resistance" (
Venezuela
)
Día de las Américas
(
Belize
)
Día de las Culturas
, "Day of the Cultures" (
Costa Rica
)
Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural
, "Day of respect for cultural diversity" (
Argentina
)
Discovery Day
(
The Bahamas
)
Feast for Life
of
Aleister Crowley
, celebrated as "Crowleymas" (
Thelema
)
Fiesta Nacional de España
(Spain)
[
3
]
Hafez
Day (
Iran
)
1
Independence Day (Equatorial Guinea)
, celebrates the independence of
Equatorial Guinea
from Spain in 1968.
International Day Against DRM
[
4
]
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b
c
Martyrologium Romanum (2004)
. Administrationem Patrimonii Sedis Apostolicae in Civitate Vaticana. 2004. p. 567-568
. Retrieved
5 October
2026
.
^
"This was the beatification of Carlo Acutis"
.
Rome Reports
. 12 October 2020
. Retrieved
15 July
2021
.
^
"International Days"
.
www.un.org
. 6 January 2015
. Retrieved
2 January
2021
.
^
"Software Freedom Podcast #1 on Day Against DRM with Cory Doctorow"
.