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Feast
day of Ishtar, Babylon
Also Astarte, Aphrodite and Venus, Syrian and Graeco-Roman
"Ishtar and Tammuz; Venus and Adonis; Love and Loyalty; Perfect
Marriage. Success in Union."
Fellowship of Isis Source
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days
Festival of the god Mars, ancient Rome
(Mar 1 - 19)
Feast day of St Alexander
Feast day of St Anastasia
the Patrician
"Christian Byzantine noble.
Lady-in-waiting to the Empress
Theodora in Constantinople.
To escape the unwanted attentions of the Emperor Justinian, she fled
the court to a convent in Alexandria.
On the death of Theodora, Justinian lauched a search for Anastasia.
To escape, she assumed a male identity and costume, and lived her
remaining 28 years as a hermit
in the desert of Scete." Source
Feast day of St Andrew of
Strumi
Feast day of St Anectus
Feast day of St Attalas of
Bobbio
Feast day of St Codratus of Corinth
Codratus and his mother fled to the forests of Greece to escape the persecutions of
the Roman emperor Decius.
After his mother died, Codratus grew up in the forest alone. He was
beheaded in Corinth during the reign of Valerian.
Feast day of St Crescens
Feast day of St Cyprian
Feast day of St Dionysius
Feast day of St Dominic
Savio
Patron of boys, children's choirs,
choir boys,
choirs,
falsely accused people,
juvenile delinquents
and Pueri Cantors.
Feast day of St Droctoveus
(Upright chickweed, Veronica triphyllos, is
today's plant,
dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of St Elias
Nieves
Feast day of the Forty Armenian
Martyrs
They are still highly venerated in the East on March 9.
"When persuasion, promises, and torture failed to sway these 40 men of various nationality and one faith, Agricolaus worked out a plan he considered certain to make them recant. Outside the city walls of Sebaste (Sivas, Turkey) was a frozen lake. He ordered the forty Christians to strip and lie on the ice. At the edge of the lake a huge bathful of water was placed over a fire, continually tempting the Christians to abandon their torment on the ice.
"One of the soldiers broke, and jumped into the water. The intense contrast between the cold he had endured and the heat of the bath killed him. Another soldier, seeing the faith of the other 39 and having experienced a dream of an angel, stripped himself and joined them, accepting the 40th place."
Source
Feast day of St Gaius
Feast day of St Himelin
While he was dying, a young woman gave him a pitcher of water, which he turned into wine.
 Feast day of St John
Ogilvie
The Roman Catholic Church's only officially recorded Scottish
martyr, Ogilvie (b. 1579)
was the son of a Scottish Calvinist (Presbyterian), but converted to
the Church of Rome. Ordained as Jesuit priest at Paris in 1610, he travelled back to Scotland in
1613 disguised as a soldier, John Watson.
The followers of John Calvin
and John
Knox tortured him and he was executed on March 10, 1615. "Your threats cheer me," he said to his interrogators, who wanted to know the names of other underground Catholics,
"I mind them no more than the cackling of geese."
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Feast day of St John of
Vallumbrosa
Interestingly, this saint of Florence who
was also known as John of the Holy Trinity, was a monk who started
to dabble in the occult, collecting and reading arcane texts.
Discovered, John was summoned before the abbot-general of the
Vallumbrosans, to whom he denied this sin, and later confessed. The
abbot-general had John imprisoned, and the monk in jail turned away
from esoteric studies and to orthodox Catholic doctrines. He lived
the rest of his long life as a hermit, writing, and receiving visions of
St Catherine of
Siena, and died about 1380.
Feast day of St Kessog
Feast day of St Macarius of Jerusalem
According to legend, he was with St Helena when she found three
crosses (one of which was the True Cross).
He was one of the signers of the decrees of the Council of Nicaea
(325).
Feast day of St Peter de
Geremia (1381 - 1452)
Born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy,
Peter performed countless miracles on that island, including raising
the dead to life and healing the lame and the blind. Once while he
preached at Catania, as Mt Etna erupted and lava flowed down on the
townspeople, who begged him for help, he came up with a novel solution. First,
he preached a brief sermon on repentance, then entered the nearby shrine of
St Agatha
(who has close associations with that volcano), where he removed the
revered veil (supposedly an actual relic of the saint) from her
statue. Peter held the veil towards the approaching lava; the eruption
stopped and Catania was saved.
It is said that his preaching was so
popular he always preached al fresco, because there no church
on the island could contain the crowds that flocked to hear him.
"Peter was consulted one day when there was no food for the community. He went down to the shore and asked a fisherman for a donation. He was rudely refused. Getting into a boat, he rowed out from the shore and made a sign to the fish; they broke the nets and followed him. Repenting of his bad manners, the fisherman apologized, whereupon Peter made another sign to the fish, sending them back into the nets again. The records say that the monastery was ever afterwards supplied with fish."
Source
Feast day of St Simplicius
Feast day of St Victor
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Todai-ji
Shunie, Tōdai-ji
temple, Nara,
Japan, (Mar 1 -
14)
Shimabara Hatsuichi,
Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (Mar 3 - 10)
Uprising Day,
Tibet (1959)
Harriet Tubman Day, USA
Dedicated to those who are willing to be of service to humanity and
recognize all individuals who struggled to end tyranny and
oppression. Harriet Tubman died on this day in
1913 (see below).
Girl Scout Sunday, USA, approximate date
Doctors' Day, Venezuela
1452 Ferdinand
II of Aragon (d. June 23, 1516),
king of Aragon,
Castile,
Sicily,
Naples
and Navarre
and Count of
Barcelona, husband of Isabella I of
Castile
1503 Ferdinand
I, Holy Roman
Emperor
1606 Edmund Waller
(d. 1687),
English poet 1709 Georg Steller
(d. 1746),
German naturalist 1772 Friedrich
von Schlegel (d. 1829), aesthetician, poet, and publicist
"German
writer, critic and philosopher, contemporary of
Goethe, Schiller and Novalis, a
pioneer in comparative Indo-European linguistics and comparative
philology. Schlegel influenced deeply early German Romantic
Movement – he is generally held the person who first established
the term romantisch in literary context. Romantic
Movement." Source
1776 Louise
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1810), Queen of Prussia1788 Joseph
von Eichendorff (d. 1857), lyricist and narrator 1842 Mykola Lysenko,
composer 1844 Pablo de
Sarasate (d. 1908), violinist 1845
Alexander
III of Russia, Russian emperor
1847 Kate Sheppard,
leader of New Zealand
female suffrage movement;
New Zealand was the first country to achieve female suffrage A world chronology of women's electoral rights
1848
Albert
Fraenkel (d. July 6, 1916),
German physician
1849
Hallie Quinn Brown, women's rights activist
1875 Eleanor May
Moores, Australian pacifist activist (more info requested from
Almaniacs)
1880 Broncho
Billy Anderson (d. 1971), actor1888 Barry
Fitzgerald (d. 1966), actor 1891 Sam Jaffe
(d. 1984),
actor 1892 Arthur Honegger
(d. 1955),
composer 1892 Gregory La Cava
(d. 1952),
director, producer, writer  1903
Bix Beiderbecke (d. 1931),
American jazz jazz
cornet player and composer
"Bix Beiderbecke was one of the great
jazz musicians of the 1920's; he was also a child of the Jazz Age
who drank himself to an early grave with illegal Prohibition
liquor. His hard drinking and beautiful tone on the cornet made
him a legend among musicians during his life. The legend of Bix
grew even larger after he died. Bix never learned to read music
very well, but he had an amazing ear even as a child …
"In 1926 he
spent some time with Frankie
Trumbauer's Orchestra where he recorded his solo piano
masterpiece 'In a
Mist'." Source
Bix Beiderbecke Resources: A
Bixography
1915 Harry Bertoia
(d. 1978),
Italian artist and designer 1927
Paul
Wunderlich, painter, graphic artist, sculptor 1928
James Earl
Ray, convicted assassin of Dr Martin Luther King,
Jr;
Ray protested his
innocence until his death on April 23, 1998
"In 1997
King's son Dexter met with Ray and publicly supported him, and the
next year Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a
full review of the case. That review ended in 2000 with a finding
that 'no credible evidence' existed to support the claims of
Jowers or the various other conspiracy theories." Source
Theories Behind
MLK's Assassination
One
theory
King Conspiracy Theories
Martin Luther
King's Son Says: James Earl Ray Didn't Kill MLK!
Triumphant in Death
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1940 Dean Torrence,
musician (Jan and Dean,
with Jan
Berry)1940 Chuck Norris,
actor, martial arts
practitioner 1947 Kim Campbell,
nineteenth Prime
Minister of Canada and first woman to hold that office 1957 (or July
30, 1957) Osama
bin Laden (Usamah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Ladin; (Arabic:
أسامة بن
محمد بن عود
ب),
CIA-trained and -backed
Islamist rebel leader, head of al-Qaeda
Fatty
bin Laden September
11 Prior Knowledge Archive
Top Bin Laden Expert:
Confession Fake Taliban
offered to extradite bin Laden
1958 Sharon Stone,
American actress1963 Jeff
Ament, musician, bass player of
Pearl Jam 1963 Neneh Cherry,
musician 1964 Edward,
Earl of Wessex 1966 Edie Brickell,
singer 1971 Ugonna Wachuku,
poet,
creative writer, author
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241 BCE First
Punic War: Battle of the
Aegates Islands – The Romans sank the Carthaginian
fleet; end of First Punic War.
1496 Christopher Columbus
left Hispaniola
for Spain, ending
his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
 1582 Two of Britain's best-known magicians, the
astrologer/mathematician Dr
John Dee and necromancer Edward Kelley, met
for the first time. Dee, when spying abroad for Queen Elizabeth I, signed his
letters '007' -
perhaps a prototype for Ian Fleming's James Bond?
"From A True and Faithful Relation of What
Passed For Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits (London:
1659)
As J.
and E. K. sate discoursing of the Noble Polonian Albertus Lasci his great
honor here with us obtained, his great good liking of all States of the
people, of them that either see him or hear of him, and again how much I was
beholding to God that his heart should so fervently favor me, and that he doth
so much strive to suppress and confound the malice and envie of my Country-men
against me, for my better credit winning or recovering to do God better
service hereafter thereby, andc. Suddenly, there seemed to come out of my
Oratory a Spiritual creature, like a pretty girl of 7 or 9 years of age,
attired on her head with her hair rowled up before, and hanging down very long
behind, with a gown of Sey, ... changeable green and red, and with a train she
seemed to play up and down ..., like, and seemed to go in and out behind my
books, lying on heaps, the biggest ...and as she should ever go between them,
the books seemed to give place sufficiently, dis.... One heap from the other,
while she passed between them: And so I considered, and ... the diverse
reports which E. K. made unto me of this pretty maiden, and ...
I said
... Whose maiden are you?
She
said ... Whose man are you?
I am
the servant of the God both by my bound duty, and also ( I hope) by his
Adoption.
A voice
... You shall be beaten if you tell
… Am
not I a fine Maiden? Give me leave to play in your house, my mother told me
she would come and dwell here.
She
went up and down with most lively gestures of a young girl playing by her self
and diverse time another spoke to her from the corner of my study by a great
Perspective glass, but none was seen beside her self.
...
Shall I? I will (Now she seemed to answer one in the fore-said Corner of the
Study)
... I
pray you let me tarry a little [speaking to on in the fore-said Corner]
Tell me
who you are?
... I
pray you let me play with you a little, and I will tell you who I am.
In the
name of Jesus then tell me.
... I
rejoice in the name of Jesus, and I am a poor littl | reetings from Australia.
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Festival of the
Farohars (cf
guardian
angels and
manes);
a
Zoroastrian festival.
