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 The Jewish
holiday of Purim begins
(2004)
A note about the dating of
items in Wilson's Almanac
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia.
Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the
deliverance of the Persian Jews from
the plot of the evil Haman to exterminate them, as recorded in the
biblical Book of Esther. According to that book
the feast was instituted as a national one by the book's
protagonists, Mordecai and Esther. Purim is celebrated
annually on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar. ( … in a small
number of cities that were walled in ancient times, it is also
celebrated on the 15th.)
Lenten curtain, or Lenten veil
We are now in
Lent,
the Christian fasting period of 40 days before Easter.
"In
the mediaeval Western Church, a white curtain hung down in Parish
churches between the altar and the nave, and parted on feast days
kept during Lent. It was taken down in the last three days of Holy
Week and said to betoken 'the prophecy of Christ's Passion, which
was hidden and unknown till these days' (Liber Festivalis).
Similarly, all crucifixes and images were covered, a practice still
followed in some Anglican churches."
Ivor H
Evans, Brewer's
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Cassell, London, 1988
Festival of the
god Mars, ancient Rome (Mar 1
-
19)
Today, Roman
household gods were honoured.
Egyptian day (dies egypticus, dies ægypticus or
dies mala), unlucky day in
Medieval Europe. ("But, notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord"
was the associated saying.)
Feast day of St Agnes of
Prague
Feast day of
St Baldred
(Baldrede), of Scotland
Bishop of Glasgow, he died at London in 608. Bollandus says "he
was wonderfully buried in three places"; just how is not
explained. He was the successor to St Kentigern (Mungo).
Feast day of St Balther
Feast day of St Basil
Feast day of St Cadroe
Feast day of St Chrodegang,
bishop of Metz
Feast day of Colette,
virgin and abbess
(Lent lily, Narcissus pseudonarcissus multiplex, is
today's plant, dedicated to
this saint.)
Feast day of St Conon
Feast day of St Cyril of
Constantinople
Feast day of St Fridolin,
abbot
Feast day of St Helen of
Poland
Feast day of St Heliodorus
Feast day of St Jordan of
Pisa
Feast day of Ss Kyneburga
(Kyneburge), Kyneswide,
and Tibba
Feast day of St Marcian of
Tortona
Feast day of St Ollegarius
Feast day of St Rose of
Viterbo (1235 - March 6, 1252)
Known for holiness and for her miraculous powers
although she was repeatedly refused entrance to the Poor Clares.
When only three years old, she raised to life her maternal aunt. She
had the friendship of birds. On December 5, 1250, Rose foretold the
speedy death of the emperor, a prophecy realized on December 13.
Soon afterwards she went to Vitorchiano, whose inhabitants had been
influenced by a famous sorceress. Rose secured the conversion of all,
even of the sorceress, by standing unscathed for three hours in the
flames of a burning pyre (source). Her
patronage includes exiles,
people in exile,
 people rejected by religious orders
and tertiaries.
Another feast day of St Rosa is also
celebrated on September
4 [qv; source],
called Fiera di S. Rosa, when her body, still incorrupt, is
carried in procession through Viterbo, Italy.
The
'Macchina di Santa
Rosa'
Wikipedia says: The transport of the
Macchina di S. Rosa takes place every year, on
September 3
[qv], at 9 o'clock in the evening. The Macchina is an artistic illuminated bell-tower with an imposing height of 30 m. It weighs between 3.5 and 5 tonnes and is made of iron, wood and papier-mâché. At the top of the tower, the statue of the Patron Saint is enthusiastically acclaimed by the people in the streets of the town centre, where lights are turned off for the occasion. One hundred Viterbesi men (known as the
Facchini) carry the Macchina from Porta Romana through the major streets of Viterbo, concluding with a strenuous ascension up to the Piazza di Santa Rosa, its final resting place. Each
Macchina has a life span of five years, after which a new one is built.
Pictured: Macchina di Santa Rosa
stamp Source
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Feast day of St Sylvester
of Assisi
Feast day of St Venustus
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Todai-ji
Shunie, Tōdai-ji
temple, Nara,
Japan, (Mar 1 -
14)
Shimabara Hatsuichi,
Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (Mar 3 - 10)
Alamo Day,
Texas, USA
Independence
Day, Ghana
(1957)
Casimir
Pulaski Day, Illinois,
USA (2006,
first Monday
of March)
1475 Michelangelo
Buonarroti (d. February
18, 1564), Italian painter
 1619 Savinien (or
Savinio) Cyrano de Bergerac (d.
July 28, 1655),
soldier, poet, dramatist, best known for his huge
nose, over which he is said to have fought more than 1,000 duels.
The character CD Bales, played by Steve Martin in
Roxanne,
was based on de Bergerac, as the movie was based on Edmond Rostand's
verse drama, Cyrano de Bergerac
(1897).
De Bergerac wrote two science-fantasy
novels about voyages to the moon and sun. He was severely wounded twice, once
at a fight with a Gascon Guard, and the second time at the siege of
Arras in 1640. There he was hit in the neck with a sword and he
never fully recovered from the wound.
He died in Paris in, 1655 and the cause of his
death was banal: a piece of plank dropped on his head.
"According to Arthur C Clarke,
Cyrano must be credited both for first applying the rocket to space
travel and, for inventing the ramjet. Cyrano wrote:
"'I foresaw very well, that the
vacuity that would happen in the icosahedron, by reason of the
sunbeams, united by the concave glasses, would, to fill up the
space, attract a great abundance of air, whereby my box would be
carried up; and that proportionable as I mounted, the rushing wind
that should force it through the hole, could not rise to the roof,
but that furiously penetrating the machine, it must needs force it
upon high.'
"(quotation from Greetings,
Carbon-Based Bipeds by Arthur C. Clarke, 2000)"
Source
1779 Antoine-Henri
Jomini (d. March 24, 1869), general
in the French
and afterwards in the Russian service, and
a writer on the art of war
1792
Jean-Jacques Willmar
(d. 1866),
Luxembourgian
politician and
jurist
 1806
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning (d. 1861), English poet,
wife of the poet
Robert
Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
'XXXII'
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The first
time that the sun rose on thine oath
To love me, I looked forward to the moon
To slacken all those bonds which seemed too soon
And quickly tied to make a lasting troth.
Quick-loving hearts, I thought, may quickly loathe;
And, looking on myself, I seemed not one
For such man's love!--more like an out-of-tune
Worn viol, a good singer would be wroth
To spoil his song with, and which, snatched in haste,
Is laid down at the first ill-sounding note.
I did not wrong myself so, but I placed
A wrong on thee. For perfect strains may float
'Neath master-hands, from instruments defaced, –
And great souls, at one stroke, may do and dote.
1812 Aaron
Lufkin Dennison father of the American
System of Watch Manufacturing in Freeport, Maine, USA
1831 Friedrich
von Bodelschwingh, the Elder (d. 1910), German
theologian 1870 Oscar
Straus, Viennese-born French composer (The
Chocolate Soldier; Der tapfere Soldat)
1885 Ring Lardner
(d. 1933),
writer1904 Joseph Schmidt,
(d. 1942)
tenor 1905 Bob
Wills (d. 1975), country music
singer 1906 Lou Costello,
(d. 1959)
American
actor
and
comedian best known as half of the comedy
team of
Abbott and Costello, with
Bud Abbott
It's a b-a-a-ad lie
A rumour, published in the book Hollywood Trivia, has it
that "Abbott and Costello once took out a $100,000 insurance
policy with Lloyd's of London that stipulated payment if any of
their audience should die of laughter." In reality, however,
no record of such policy
exists in the files, a spokesperson for the famous agency said in
1989.
Source:
Abbott and Costello Official Website
1914 Kiril
Kondrashin, (d. 1981) Russian conductor1923 Ed
McMahon, American television personality
1923
Jürgen von Manger
(d. 1994),
German actor 1926 Alan Greenspan,
American economist 1926 Andrzej Wajda,
Polish
film director 1927 Wes Montgomery,
musician 1927 Gordon Cooper (d. 2004),
American astronaut
1928 Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian
journalist, novelist and short story writer, born Aracataca,
Colombia; winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1982.
A central figure in the Magical Realism movement, a term used in
1920s Germany to describe painters, whose works expressed
surrealistic visions. The term was applied to literature by Cuban
novelist Alejo Carpentier, who recognized the tendency of
Latin-American writers to combine fantasy elements and mythology
with otherwise realistic fiction.
Among magic realists are
Jorge Amado,
Jorge
Luis Borges,
Isabel Allende and
Julio Cortázar. His best known
work is Cien Anos de Soledad (One Hundred Years of
Solitude).
More
1929
Günter
Kunert, writer and lyricist1930 Lorin Maazel,
French-born American conductor 1934 John
Noakes, British TV presenter (Blue Peter) 1936 Marion Barry, Jr,
mayor of Washington, DC 1937 Valentina
Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut and
first woman in space 1944 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa,
New Zealand opera singer 1944
Mary Wilson, singer, member of the Supremes 1946 David Gilmour,
musician (Pink Floyd) 1947 Rob
Reiner, actor, comedian, movie producer 1947 Kiki Dee, singer 1949 Shaukat Aziz,
politician 1953 Jan Kjærstad,
Norwegian
author 1959 Tom Arnold,
actor, comedian 1963 DL Hughley,
actor, comedian Phew!!
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