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Ascension Thursday has become Ascension Sunday in Italy. In an official decree issued by the Italian Bishops' Conference, the feast of the Ascension and two other major holy days — Epiphany and Corpus Christi — will be celebrated on Sunday in the future.
The move is part of Church efforts to reduce the number of holy days of obligation, being made in conjunction with Italian government efforts to increase production by cutting back on worker holidays. In Italy many civil holidays are tied to religious holy days.
The bishops conference said that Epiphany would be celebrated on the Sunday that falls between January 1 and 9, Ascension on the seventh Sunday after Easter and Corpus Christi on the Sunday after Trinity Sunday.
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