Ringing Dates
The bell regularly tolls on major Catholic holidays; Polish national holidays; and feast days of the patron saints of the bell, the cathedral, Kraków or all Poland. It also tolls on other special occasions at the discretion of the archbishop of Kraków.
| Occasion | Date |
|---|---|
| Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God | 1 January |
| Epiphany | 6 January |
| Palm Sunday | movable |
| Holy Saturday | movable |
| Easter | movable |
| Easter Monday | movable |
| Divine Mercy Sunday | movable |
| Saint Sigismund's Day | 2 May |
| Constitution Day; Day of Our Lady, the Queen of Poland | 3 May |
| Saint Stanislaus' Day | 8 May |
| Procession of Saint Stanislaus | movable |
| Ascension | movable |
| Pentecost | movable |
| Saint Hedwig's Day | 8 June |
| Corpus Christi | movable |
| Feast of Saints Peter and Paul | 29 June |
| Assumption; Polish Armed Forces Day | 15 August |
| Saint Wenceslaus' Day | 28 September |
| Blessed John Paul II's Day | 22 October |
| All Saints | 1 November |
| All Souls' Day | 2 November |
| Independence Day | 11 November |
| Feast of Christ the King | movable |
| Immaculate Conception | 8 December |
| Christmas Eve | 24 December |
| Christmas | 25 December |
| Second Day of Christmas | 26 December |
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Famous quotes containing the words ringing and/or dates:
“Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of
change.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)