Spain’s April Fool’s Day (28 of Dicember)
Monday, December 28, is The Day of the Innocent Saints, a day full of jokes in which people make and receive them. Day of joy and celebration can be enjoyed with family and friends preparing all kinds of surprises, but not unpleasant ones.
Origin of Innocent Saints Day
Despite the joy that characterizes this festival today, its history is marked by a most cruel action. The origin of this tradition is in Christianity: in the hagiographic episode that chronicles the slaughtered all children under two years of age born in Bethlehem, Judea, which was ordered by Herod I «The Great» to get rid of the Jesus of Nazareth.
The name «Innocent Saints» comes from the name that at such a young age (2 years) they could not have committed any sin. Throughout history, the celebration was changing and the altar boyes began to play jokes on this day. Custom that was passed on to families.
The Catholic Church celebrates this event on December 28, although according to the Gospel of Matthew, the massacre happened after the Wizards’ visited the king, so it would have taking place days after January 6.
All kinds of jokes are spent on this day there are some that are repeated in various places all over the world every year:
Newspapers: It is very common in many countries that on December 28 newspapers publish fake news with some kind of joke.
Television: on this day virtually every network prepares some kind of «trap» in which some celebrity falls. They almost always use hidden cameras that turn the innocent into a cannon fodder on December 28.
Innocent Saints Day in other countries
Not all countries, celebrate Innocent Saints Day on the same day. Elsewhere in the world it is celebrated on April 1st and is known by different names: in Italy it is known as Pesce d’aprile, in Canada asPoisson d’Avril, in Portugal and Brazil they call it Day of Lies and in Austria, Switzerland and Germany the Erster April is celebrated. In Australia,US and the UK, it’s fool’s day.
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