The Assumption of Our Lady to Heaven, czyli Matki Boskiej Zielnej po maltańsku... The Feast of Santa Maria or the Assumption of Our Lady to Heaven, is probably Malta's most celebrated Festa, as it is celebrated in the peak of summer where most companies take a week of for their holidays. Santa Maria is celebrated on the 15th of August, which is also a national public holiday in 7 towns and villages across Malta and Gozo and each village puts up an excellent display of traditional Maltese fireworks and a Festa atmosphere. The towns that celebrate the feast of the Assumption are: Hal Għaxaq, Gudja, Attard, Mosta, Mqabba, Qrendi and Victoria. The Assumption of Mary into Heaven, often shortened to the Assumption and also known as the Feast of Saint Mary the Virgin, mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin Mary was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life. The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the V...
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