name day 6th odf November



picture courtesy from Swedish website:captured by:of( Kjell Holmner)

 Lets talk about name today.... Native of Gothenburg city and even the rest of Sweden have their tradation to celebrate name day.

People take it seriously,that they phone their love one's,friends and congratulate on their name day. Different in my culture because we don't celebrate like this except our birthday.

Today Novemebr 6, Sweden celebrating "All Saints Day". Holiday today that we called it "red day" lot of you maybe wonder why? In USA and even in my home land we celebrate "All Saints Day"every November 1.  The reason why??? Every first Saturday in the first week of November which is today (6th of November) = celebrate All Sainst Day in Sweden. I am not sure if their's another country in Europe aside from Sweden. In USA they called it "Holloween".

Today is even name day of Gustav Adolf to memory of Gustav 11 Adolf that died in this date in the fog during fight day in Lutzen Germany 1932. He build Gothenburg  with his initiative and the city got  it's right  year 1621.

In Sweden today there are 5 people name GUSTAV ADOLF. In the other side there are about 73800 Gustav name bearer (only without Adolf) and around 5600 Adolf in the country.