 However, its coinciding with Easter is deliberate as it follows the motto of the Basque Nationalist Party "Jaungoiko eta Lege Zaharrak" "God and the Old Laws and the symbolism of the resurrection of Christ.Ideologically, it follows the examples of the older Catalan and Galician patriotic holidays, the National Day of Catalonia (from 1889 onwards) and the National Day of Galicia (from 1919 onwards).It was then celebrated in San Sebastián in 1933, in Vitoria-Gasteiz in 1934 and in Pamplona in 1935.