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|date = |date = |date = |celebrations = |observances = |relatedto = }} Jeûne genevois (meaning ''Genevan fast'') is a public holiday in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland which occurs on the Thursday following the first Sunday of September. It dates back to the 16th century. ==Background== In Europe, beginning in the 15th century, people fasted as a way of remembering famines, plagues and wars. The Swiss Federal Diets of 1480 and 1483 talked about national Fast Days of penitence and thanksgiving but in the end, left these to the cantons. With no federal law, fast days became pilgrimages, processions, litanies and fasts.〔Catherine Santschi, ''La mémoire des Suisses'', Association de l'Encyclopédie de Genève, 1991〕 In 1522 Huldrych Zwingli, who helped stir Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, said fasting laws were only human notions which had nothing to do with the Holy Writ. Nonetheless, the plagues of Basle (1541) and Berne (1565 and 1577) were followed by days of penitence and fasting, asking God for clemency and mercy.〔Olivier Fatio, ''Le Jeûne genevois, réalité et mythe'' (BSHAG14), 1971.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeûne genevois」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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