I want focus on the festivals, and holidays and how they are celebrated. Because holidays and festivals are important times for the people. So by finding out the background information, I can get a better understanding about their country itself. Holidays are something really important and comes by once a year. Holidays are day of something good or bad that happen to their country To honor that they make a holiday out of it. So people can remember that day and be honored..
Saint Ursula's day is on October 21. “She headed for Rome, with her followers, and persuaded the Pope, Cyriacus, and Sulpicius, Bishop of Ravenna, to join them. On their return, Cologne, Germany, was being sacked by the Huns, who after Ursula refused some advances of their prince, beheaded all 11.001 of them, supposedly in 383. One of the 11,000, St Cordula, escaped death on the first day by hiding, wrote down the tale for posterity, then gave herself …show more content…
Its design comprises of a canton (the upper left quarter) that features the Union flag or the Union Jack - the flag of United Kingdom, set against the backdrop of a blue field. The right half of the flag known as the fly displays the coats of arms on which the image of St. Ursula (the saint after whom Columbus named the island) surrounded by twelve yellow lamps of her 11,000 virgin followers is depicted. Below this coat of arms is a spool with the motto "Vigilate," which means "Be Watchful" in Latin.” (British Virgin Islands Territory Day). There a lot of background and it all started in 1956. 6 years ago they got their independence so the flag showed they were really a country of their own. It the starting point for their country as a whole to do big things. To have a country where they can stand by their self, without being told what to do. That was something the people wanted. The flag made it official to the rest of the
Saint Ursula's day is on October 21. “She headed for Rome, with her followers, and persuaded the Pope, Cyriacus, and Sulpicius, Bishop of Ravenna, to join them. On their return, Cologne, Germany, was being sacked by the Huns, who after Ursula refused some advances of their prince, beheaded all 11.001 of them, supposedly in 383. One of the 11,000, St Cordula, escaped death on the first day by hiding, wrote down the tale for posterity, then gave herself …show more content…
Its design comprises of a canton (the upper left quarter) that features the Union flag or the Union Jack - the flag of United Kingdom, set against the backdrop of a blue field. The right half of the flag known as the fly displays the coats of arms on which the image of St. Ursula (the saint after whom Columbus named the island) surrounded by twelve yellow lamps of her 11,000 virgin followers is depicted. Below this coat of arms is a spool with the motto "Vigilate," which means "Be Watchful" in Latin.” (British Virgin Islands Territory Day). There a lot of background and it all started in 1956. 6 years ago they got their independence so the flag showed they were really a country of their own. It the starting point for their country as a whole to do big things. To have a country where they can stand by their self, without being told what to do. That was something the people wanted. The flag made it official to the rest of the