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Feast day of St Milburga (Milburge;
Milburgh; Milburga), virgin, abbess in Shropshire, UK
(Apricot, Prunus armeniaca, is
today's
plant, dedicated to this saint.)
She
was a daughter of King Merewald of Magonset and his wife, St
Ermenburga (alias Aebbe of Minster-in-Thanet); sister to St Mildred
and St Mildgytha. Goscelin wrote her vita in
the late-11th Century, and her feast was common in English calendars
from the Bosworth Psalter (c. 1000) onwards
St Milburga
built the monastery
of Much Wenlock,
Shropshire. She ordered the wild geese that ate the
corn of her monastery to go, and they obeyed. After her death, in
1100 two children discovered her remains, sinking up to their knees
in her grave, and the dust there cured leprosy, restored sight, and
so on.
In one legend, Milburga crossed the River
Corve to escape from an unwelcome suitor. After she had crossed the
river the waters dramatically rose, making certain the suitor could
not follow. In another version, Milburga was riding an ass that
stumbled and fell, injuring itself. Milburga brought forth the
waters to heal the beast. St Milburga's Well was supposed to have
cured eye diseases, and in Victorian times to have helped young
women to find sweethearts.
A diseased woman of Patton drank water
which had had the saint's bones steeped in it; from the woman's
stomach came "a filthie worme, ugly and horrible to behold, having
six feete, two hornes on his head, and two on his tayle". The
worm, says Brother Porter, "was shutt up in a hollow piece of
wood, and reserved afterwards in the monasterie, as a trophie, and monument of St
Milburg". Wenlock Monastery was destroyed by anti-Catholic
fanatics in the Reformation; on November 7, 1547 the precious relics
were burned on a common bonfire together
with the images of various saints.
Her feast day falls in the middle of the
Spring wheat sowing season in Shropshire, and she is associated with
ploughing and sowing, as the days get warmer and the soil more
receptive. Milburga's monastery was destroyed by the Danes in 874; but the Cluniac monks from La-Charité-sur-Loire
refounded Wenlock in 1079.
In art, Saint Milburga holds the abbey of
Wenlock. There may be geese near her.
"A poor widow came to her in her
oratory, bringing the body of her little dead son. Throwing
herself at the feet of the abbess, she besought her to raise the
child to life. 'You must be mad!' exclaimed Milburga, 'How can I
raise your child? Go and bury him and submit to the bereavement
sent to you by God!'
"'No,' said the sorrowing mother, 'I will
not leave you till you give me back my son!'
"The abbess prayed over the little corpse
and, while doing so, she suddenly appeared to the poor
supplicant to be raised from the earth and surrounded by lovely
flames – the living emblem of the fervour of her prayer. Within
a few minutes, the child had recovered." Source
Much Wenlock, England
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more
Lesser Eleusinia,
ancient Greece (Feb 20 - 23)
Festivals in ancient Greece
Feast day of St Alexander
Akimetes
Feast day of St Boswell
(Boisil), prior of Melrose
Feast day of St Dositheus
of Gaza, monk of Palestine
Feast day of St Florentius
of Seville
Feast day of St John of
Hungary
Feast day of St Lazarus
Zographos
Feast day of St Martha
Feast day of St Ordonius
Feast day of St Polycarp of
Smyrna
From Wikipedia:
Polycarp of Smyrna (martyred in his 87th year, c. 155
- 167)
was a Christian
bishop
of Smyrna
(now Izmir in Turkey)
in the 2nd Century. He died a martyr,
the first known Christian martyr
outside the Bible, by being
stabbed and his corpse burned at the stake in Smyrna. He
is recognized as a saint
in both the Roman
Catholic and Eastern
Orthodox churches. "He had been a disciple of John, and
opinions differ as to whether this John was the
son of Zebedee, or John
the Presbyter" (Lake, 1912). Traditional advocates follow Eusebius
in insisting that the apostolic connection was with John
the Evangelist, and that the author of the Gospel
of John was the apostle. Polycarp never quotes from the
Gospel of John
in his own writings, which may be an indication that whichever John
he knew was not the author of that gospel, or that that gospel was
not finished during Polycarp's discipleship with John.
The LaPlante sisters (LaPlante, Alice and Clare,
Heaven Help Us: the Worrier's Guide to the Patron
Saints, Dell 1999) recommend St Polycarp as the saint to invoke when looking for a parking spot.
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Feast day of St Rafaela
Ybarra de Villalongo
Feast day of St Romana
Feast day of St Serenus the
Gardener, martyr
Patron saint of bachelors and falsely accused people.
"One day he found a woman and her
daughters walking in the garden around noon. He recommended they
withdraw, and return in the cool of the evening, but the way he
said it led her to believe he was simply chasing them out. Her
husband was an imperial guard, and he convinced Emperor Maximian
to revenge this imagined insult. Serenus was arrested and brought to trial,
but simply repeated what he had said, and was immediately
acquitted. However, his demeanor led the judge to suspect Serenus
was a Christian, which was illegal. When questioned about it,
Serenus admitted his faith. He was ordered to sacrifice to pagan
gods; he refused, and was sentenced to death.
"His story was very popular in times past due to
his being a simple man brought to ruin not through any fault of
his own, but as a result of the arrogance of the ruling class, a
theme which has resonated in many an age, and because many
writers and preachers liked to use the metaphor of the garden as
an example of a proper Christian life." Source
Feast day of St Willigis
Feast day of St Zebinus
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Powamu,
Pueblo/Hopi purification ceremony, (Feb 12 - 28)
Sounkyo Ice
Festival, Sounkyo Onsen (spa), Hokkaido, Japan (Jan 29 - Mar 5)
Mashramani-Republic
Day, Guyana
Day of Motherland's Defender, Russia
(formerly Red
Army Day or Day of Soviet Army and Navy)
National
Day, Brunei
Federation Day, Federation
of the West Indies
The West Indies Federation was a short-lived, now defunct Caribbean
country that existed from January 3, 1958 to May
31, 1962.
1418 Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
1633 Samuel Pepys (d. 1703), English diarist,
Secretary to the Admiralty
1685 Georg Friederich Händel (George Frideric Handel;
d. 1759), German-born
English composer.
Born at Halle in Saxony,
Handel spent most of his life in England.
In 1703, at Hamburg, he
had a duel with a musician named Mattheson. Mattheson's sword broke
when it struck a musical score that Handel had under his coat and
thus the great composer's life was saved. He never married though
it has been said that his music attracted many women. He died on a
Good Friday (1759), according to his own wish.
1743 Mayer Amschel
Rothschild, (d.
1812),
German banker, founder of the banking dynasty of Rothschilds. Born
in the ghetto of Frankfurt-am-Main he developed a
finance house and spread his empire by installing each of his five
sons in European cities to conduct business. A coin collector, one
day he was ushered into the presence of Prince William of Hanau who
bought a handful of his rarest medals and coins. This was the first
transaction between a Rothschild and a head of state, but soon the
ambitious Rothschild was doing business with other princes. His
greatest break came by wheeling and dealing on the wars of Europe.
"Owing to Napoleon's
seizure of Holland in 1803, the leaders of the anti-Napoleonic
league chose Frankfort as a financial center where-from to obtain
the sinews of war. After the battle of Jena in 1806 the Landgrave
of Hesse-Cassel fled to Denmark, where he had already deposited
much of his wealth through the agency of Mayer Amschel Rothschild,
leaving in the hands of the latter specie and works of art of the
value of 600,000 pounds. According to legend, these were hidden
away in wine-casks, and, escaping the search of Napoleon's
soldiers when they entered Frankfort, were restored intact in the
same casks in 1814, when the elector returned to his electorate
(see Marbot, "Memoirs," 1891, i. 310-311). The
facts are somewhat less romantic, and more business-like.
Rothschild, so far from being in danger, was on such good terms
with Napoleon's nominee, Prince Dalberg, that he had been made
in 1810 a member of the Electoral College of Darmstadt. The
elector's money had been sent to Nathan in London, who in 1808
utilized it to purchase 800,000 pounds worth of gold from the
East India Company, knowing that it would be needed for
Wellington's Peninsular campaign. He made no less than four
profits on this: (1) on the sale of Wellington's paper, (2) on
the sale of the gold to Wellington, (3) on its repurchase, and
(4) on forwarding it to Portugal. This was the beginning of the
great fortunes of the house …"
The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume X, 1905 (p. 494) Source
1817 Sir
George
Watts,
English
Victorian
painter
and sculptor
associated with the Symbolist
movement
1840 Carl
Menger (d. 1921), economist
1868 WEB DuBois,
(d. 1963) civil rights
leader
 1882 (allegedly; March
5 is also given by some sources)
B
Traven (d. March 26, 1969?), author of The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This is just a guess, as his
identity and date of birth are still unknown.
His other novels were ignored for
many years in North America, while his work was being acclaimed
internationally and translated into numerous languages.
Traven wrote numerous other novels, which include The Death Ship
and the epic Jungle Novel series, which is a description of
Government corruption, and an Indian uprising set at the birth of
the Mexican revolution. The Jungle novels include Government,
The Carreta, March to the Monteria, Trozas, The
Rebellion of the Hanged, and The General from the Jungle
and powerfully portray the human basis of the Mexican
revolution. As of 2005, some works are still awaiting
translation from German to English.
Until recently, little was known about the man himself; it was
not even clear whether he was German or merely wrote in the
language. It is clear from the descriptions in his novels that he
must have at least travelled extensively (if not lived) in Europe,
the United States
and Mexico.
On the basis of comparing writing styles, it has been suggested
that Traven was a pseudonym for the German anarchist Ret
Marut, who published an underground magazine in the last years of
the Weimar Republic.
Another identity for Traven may have been 'Traven's
agent', the seemingly English Hal Croves who met with director John
Huston during the filming of The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Traven's widow, Rosa Elena Lujàn, supported both of these
speculations in an interview published in 1990 in The New York
Times.
"Traven died on March 26, 1969 in Mexico
City. His ashes were flown to Chipas and scattered over Río
Jataté. Traven's will stated that he was Traven Torsvan Croves,
born in Chicago in 1890 and naturalized as a Mexican citizen in
1951. However, Traven's widow, Mrs. Luján, stated in an
interview: ''He told me that once he died, I could say that he had
been Ret Marut, but not before. He was afraid he would be
extradited. So I always had to lie, because I had to save my
husband.'' (The New York Times, June 25, 1990)"
Source: Authors
Calendar
"The enigmatic writer, German anarchist
revolutionary, B Traven, also called Berick Traven Torsvan, or Ret
Marut or Hal Croves (b. March 5, 1890?; or Feb 25?) ; (d. March 27,
1969, Mexico City).
"B. Traven is an internationally best selling
& highly-regarded author virtually unknown in America.
"In 1934, The Death Ship was
issued in English, followed by The Treasure of The Sierra
Madre (1935), The Bridge in The Jungle (1938)
& one of his jungle novels, The Rebellion of The Hanged
(1952).
"Two of Traven's works, Land Des
Fruhlings (Land of Springtime) & Aslan Norval
remain untranslated.
"As a young man Traven went by the name Ret
Marut, & published an underground anarchist magazine, Der
Ziegelbrenner (The Brick Burner) in Germany.
"A Stirnerite anarchist, Marut joined the
Bavarian Soviet of 1919 with Gustav
Landauer & other anarchists.
B Traven was said to be:
Jack London
Ambrose Bierce
An American millionaire
A Black American ex-slave
Frans Blom
A leper
Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos
The President's sister, Esperanza
August Ribelje
Jacob Torice
Mexican President Elias Calles
Chief editor of a German Publisher
Cap'n Bilbo
Arthur Breisky
A group of writers in Honduras
A group of leftist Hollywood scriptwriters
et al
Source:
The Anarchist Encyclopedia More
More
And
more
1883 Karl Jaspers (d. 1969), German
psychiatrist and philosopher
who had a strong influence on modern theology,
psychiatry
and philosophy
1883 Victor Fleming (d. 1949), American film director (Gone With the Wind; The Wizard of Oz)
1899 Erich Kästner
(d. 1974),
German satirist/poet/novelist, whose military experiences made him a pacifist and opponent of totalitarian systems. He is best known for his children's books, but they were not popular among Nazis. Kästner wrote
Emil and the Detectives (1929); The School of Dictators (1956), among others.
1899
Elisabeth Langgässer
(d. 1950),
lyricist, narrator and novelist
1901 Ivar Lo-Johansson
(d. 1990), Swedish author/social critic, recognized for his
working class and landless peasant novels and short stories. His
books include The Share Croppers (1936-36); Proletarians
of the Earth (1941).
1904 Leopold Trepper (d. 1982),
Soviet spy in WWII1908 William McMahon (d. 1988),
20th Prime
Minister of Australia 1915 Paul Tibbets,
pilot of the Enola Gay,
the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
Japan
1928 Vasili Lazarev
(d. 1990),
cosmonaut 1932 Majel Barrett,
actress 1939 Peter
Fonda, actor 1944 Johnny Winter,
musician 1951 Patricia
Richardson, actress 1954 Viktor
Yushchenko, President
of
Ukraine 1955 Howard
Jones, musician 1958 David Sylvian,
musician 1994 Dakota Fanning,
actress 1963 Paula P-Orridge
(b. Alaura O'Dell), English musician
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Terminalia, Festival of Terminus,
God of Boundaries and Endings, ancient Rome
The
day after Hall
Sunday and the day before Shrove Tuesday. In olden times, Britishers
cut their meat into collops, or steaks for salting or
hanging up until Lent was over. It's still a custom to have eggs and
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