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Hurricane Supplication Day in US Virgin Islands

Hurricane Supplication Day in US Virgin Islands is held on July 22. Established to pray to be spared from hurricanes. No longer a paid holiday. Fourth Monday in July. This event in the third decade of the month July is annual. Help us Help us 
22 July - Hurricane Supplication Day in US Virgin Islands
Hurricane Supplication Day is no longer an official V.I. holiday but it used to be recognized annually on the fourth Monday of July -- which is today. Government workers had the days off with pay until 1999, when Gov. Charles Turnbull eliminated the government holiday due to budget restraints.
Observed in the U.S. Virgin Islands — St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John — Hurricane Supplication Day marks the beginning of the hurricane season. Special church services are held to pray for safety from the storms that ravage these and other Caribbean islands. The custom probably dates back to the "rogation" ceremonies which began in fifth-century England—from the word rogare, meaning "to beg or supplicate." Rogations usually followed a frightening series of storms, earthquakes, or other natural disasters, although sometimes they took place annually on the Rogation Days that preceded Ascension Day.
At the end of the hurricane season in October there is a Hurricane Thanksgiving Day. Church services are held on the third Monday in October so that the islanders can give thanks for being spared the destruction of a major storm.

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