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About International Firefighters Day
Ends: May 04, 2025
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International Firefighters' Day (IFFD) is when the world recognizes and honors firefighters' sacrifices to ensure their communities and environment are as safe as possible. Show your support by proudly wearing and displaying blue and red ribbons pinned together or participating in a memorial or recognition event.
Firefighting became an occupation at the time of Jesus in ancient Rome under Augustus Cesar. Many communities through the ages have supported volunteer fire departments in the absence of full-time departments. George Washington, the United States' first President, was a volunteer firefighter.
May fourth was chosen as the day to honor firefighters, as it is the Feast of Saint Florian. Saint Florian is the patron saint of firefighters.
WHY SO MANY FEAST DAYS?
Have you ever noticed that there seem to be feast days for just about everything in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian faiths? There is a reason for that. The church granted feast days to allow all subjects of the Crown to take a day off. As most worked six days a week, feast days provided a break that landowners and nobility couldn't deny. If they tried, they were going against the church, and that you did not do.
In medieval times, there were approximately 60 feast days a year. Add this to 52 Sundays, Christmas, and Easter; workers received at least 114 days off a year. Contrast that to today. The average American gets 104 weekend days and seven national holidays off work, three days less than the commoners of the Dark Ages—just in case you're feeling a little overworked.
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