Yale Chaplain’s Office: This week’s religious holidays (Dec. 3-10)

In the latest Chaplain’s Office Telegram, there is a list of religious holidays that are taking place this week.

Hanukkah (Ju), 12/3 - 12/10
An eight-day Jewish Festival of lights commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BCE.
 
Bodhi Day, 12/8
The Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautauma (Shakyamuni), experienced enlightenment.
 
Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 12/8
A Roman Catholic holiday that celebrates the solemn belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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