Marian Days
The Marian Days (Vietnamese: Ngày Thánh Mẫu, colloquially Đại hội Thánh Mẫu) is the main festival and pilgrimage for Vietnamese American Catholics and the largest Vietnamese event outside Vietnam. The annual event, inaugurated in 1978, ordinarily takes place on the first weekend in August in honor of the Virgin Mary on the campus of the Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer (CRM) in Carthage, Missouri.