{"id":3178,"date":"2026-08-08T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2026-08-09T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:13:00","slug":"8-august-national-day-of-sacrifice-of-italian-workers-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dal_consolato\/2026\/08\/8-august-national-day-of-sacrifice-of-italian-workers-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"8 August &#8211; National Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 8 August, we commemorate the National Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers Worldwide, which coincides with the commemoration of the Marcinelle mining disaster in Belgium. In 1956, at the Bois du Cazier mine, 262 miners lost their lives, including 136 Italians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On this occasion, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, <strong>Hon. Antonio Tajani<\/strong>, addressed a message to Italian citizens living abroad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MESSAGGIO-SCRITTO-VP-TAJANI-COMMEMORAZIONE-70-MARCINELLE.pdf\">Read the message from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ItalyinJeddah\"><strong>Watch the video-message<\/strong> <strong>from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 8 August, we commemorate the National Day of Sacrifice of Italian Workers Worldwide, which coincides with the commemoration of the Marcinelle mining disaster in Belgium. In 1956, at the Bois du Cazier mine, 262 miners lost their lives, including 136 Italians. On this occasion, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consgedda.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}