I appreciate that you know what is happening near you and in your homeland. As the snowclone could go, "think locally, speak globally"? My epistemology in this regard is unfortunately limited to concrete measurements, such as the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

The English Wikipedia is such an unreliable source, that I could not even be certain whether Mary of Hungary was born in 1505.

I am sorry that I have allowed the bigger picture, or mere coincidence and happenstance, to cloud my opinion of your yearly ceremony and the annoying disruption to your daily commute.

"History may not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme." -- unknown