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Actually It's the day that we celebrate the birth of St Jean-baptist and summer solistace which are said to be related.
The "feux de la St-Jean" are found here as early as the 17th century. It was brought from France by the earliest settlers. Finding it's "pagan" origin in celebrating the summer solstice the event in itself was always, and still is in these days, mainly a popular event. But it is correct to believe that through the ages the event has been recuperated by all kinds of political tendencies.
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