March 5

Fifteen is the age at which a child attains spiritual maturity, and thus it is at the age of fifteen that a Bahá'í child assumes the responsibility for obeying such laws as those of fasting and prayer, and for affirming of his own volition his faith in Bahá'u'lláh. (From a letter dated 19 July, 1982, written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to the NSA of the United Kingdom; 'Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963 to 1986')