MANILA -- President Rodrigo R. Duterte has declared September 8 of every year as a special working holiday in the country to commemorate the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Catholic Church celebrates the Virgin Mary’s birth on September 8, nine months after the December 8 celebration of her Immaculate Conception as the child of Saints Joachim and … [Read more...] about Virgin Mary’s birth declared special working holiday