Today is the Feast of the Assumption, a national holiday in Slovenia.
Bishops will say Mass at the country's main pilgrimage sites, as well as at the many churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary around the country.
Catholic bishops symbolically entrusted the Slovenian nation into Mary's hands in Brezje, in 1992. It became a bank holiday the same year.
This year, the bishops will renew this bond, with a mass in Brezje.