Mariä Empfängnis in 🇵🇹 Portugal

Portugal's Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8th is a national holiday with church services; it also officially marks the opening of the Christmas season, with Christmas lights and markets launched that day.

Catholic feast on December 8 celebrating the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived free from original sin, observed as a public holiday in many Catholic-majority countries with church masses and processions.