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The nones
of March, ancient Rome
In the Roman
calendar, the nones of a month were the fifth day of the months
January, February,
April, June,
August, September,
November, and December,
and the seventh day of March,
May, July,
and October; traditionally
the day of the Half Moon.
The nones were nine days before the ides (depending on the month, these could be the 13th
and 15th day; traditionally the day of the Full Moon), reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman
method.
The term none came into Christian
liturgical use, meaning 'the fifth of the seven canonical hours' (no
longer used) or 'the time of day appointed for this service, usually the
ninth hour after sunrise'.
On
March 7, sacrifices of female
goats were made to
Vediovis
(Veiovis; Veive),
an old Italian or
Etruscan
deity, whose temple was dedicated in
193 BCE in Rome
between the two peaks of the
Capitoline Hill.
Vediovis, a god representing a young Jove, or
Jupiter (juvenis or
juvenile) or his inverse or ill-omened counterpart, was also honoured on
January 1.
"While the Lares and Di Penates are honored
every day in the pious Roman household, the Nones (celebrated on either
the 5th or 7th day of the month; see the Calendar)
are days when a more elaborate ceremony should be observed. The Nones
are sacred to Iuno Covella (Iuno of the Hollow Moon).
"The Nones ritual is usually celebrated early
in the morning at sunrise by the head of the household (usually the
eldest male). If circumstances (or family tradition) dictate, it may be
performed at noon or before sunset. No sexual activity is permitted
prior to the rite. The performer of the rite does not break his fast
prior to performing the rite (if celebrated at sunrise); only a little
tea or coffee is permitted.
"Before the rite the Paterfamilias washes his
hands (having also previously bathed or showered beforehand) while
saying the prayer
for ablution …"
Nones
Ritual
Roman
festivals and notable days in the Book of Days Almanacs
calendars time links
Links
to calendar history Early
Roman Calendar - History Roman
festivals Roman
calendar
Roman
Dates (Chris Bennett's site)
Seyffert's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities
LacusCurtius
Smith's Dictionary calendar article
More from Smith
Festival of the god Mars,
ancient Rome (Mar 1
-
19)
Feast day of the Espousal of Our Lady
The date that Mary, the mother of Jesus, married Joseph. This
feast day was proclaimed by Pope Paul II in 1537.
Bonnie
Blackburn and Leofranc
Holford-Strevens, Oxford
Companion to the Year,
Oxford University Press, 1999
Feast day of St Eubulus
Feast day of St Gaudiosus
of Brescia
Feast day of St German
Gardiner
Feast day of St John
Ireland
Feast day of St John Larke
Feast day of St Paul of Prusa
Feast
day of St Paul the
Simple, anchoret (hermit)
"A man of profound ignorance". Originally a farmer, he journeyed into the
desert to become a disciple of St Anthony
the Great (Anthony the Abbot), who told him he was too
old and that he should go home. Paul fasted outside Antony's door
until the superior cleric took him in.
He is called 'The Simple' for his simple and humble acceptance
of Christian teachings.
One day Paul made mats all day, and prayed
constantly; St Anthony made him undo his work and do it all over
again, which Paul did without eating although he hadn't eaten for
seven days. Anthony was testing his obedience. Anthony got Paul to
spill a vessel of honey and gather it up without any dust. He then
ordered him to draw water all day and pour it out again, make
baskets and pull them apart, sew and unsew garments. When Paul
passed all these tests, Anthony made him a model for all the other
monks; the sick and possessed came to him and were cured. Paul was
even able to cure those with a devil that St Anthony could not
exorcise. St Paul the Simple died about 330 or 340 of natural
causes.
Feast day of St Perpetua (Early
daffodil, Narcissus
pseudonarcissus simplex, is
today's plant, dedicated to this
saint) and her slave Felicitas
(Felicity; Felicita), martyrs
at Carthage (203?)
From Wikipedia:
Among Christians, Vibia Perpetua is venerated as a martyr
and saint.
Perpetua, a young married woman, aged twenty-two, is forever linked
with her co-martyr, her slave, Felicita; they suffered together at Carthage,
traditionally on March
7, 203,
though the association of the martyrdom with a birthday festival of
the Emperor Geta
would seem to place it after 209, when Geta was made caesar
though before 211, when he was assassinated. The year of the
martyrdom is not explicitly given in the Acta, but it was the
year when Minucius Timinianus (not otherwise attested) was proconsul
in the Roman
province of Africa. In art they are shown as two maidens with a wild cow or ox in the
amphitheatre.
Passion
of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity More
Feast day of St Theophylact
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Todai-ji
Shunie, Tōdai-ji
temple, Nara,
Japan, (Mar 1 -
14)
Shimabara Hatsuichi,
Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan (Mar 3 - 10)
Bird and
Arbor
Day, California, USA (celebrated on Luther
Burbank's birthday)
Teacher's
Day, Albania
Hime-no-Miya, Oagata-jinja
shrine near Inuyama, Honshu, Japan
(dates vary; first two Sundays in March)
On the first two Sundays in March,
the Japanese celebrate the Izanami, the mother goddess of Japan. Her
temple at the Oagata-jinja shrine near Inuyama in central Honshu
features large cleft rocks, huge clamshells and other sacred items
that resemble female genitalia. At her festival, worshippers carry
these items through the streets in procession.
Anneli
Rufus, The
World Holiday Book: Celebrations for every day of the year, Harper
San Francisco, 1994
What is today's date in the Anglo-Saxon calendar? Click here to find out. You'll need your
latitude and longitude.
189 Publius
Septimius Geta
(d. 211), Roman emperor1693 Pope Clement
XIII (d. 1769) 1746 André Michaux,
(d. 1802)
French botanist 1765 Joseph Niepce
(d. July 5, 1833) French
inventor,
most noted as a pioneer in photography who
also worked on improved designs of pumps and the early internal-combustion_engine
1792 John Herschel
(d. 1871),
mathematician, astronomer1802 Edwin Henry
Landseer (d. October 1, 1873), British painter,
well known for his paintings of animals -
particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known
of Landseer's works, however, are sculptures – the
famous lions
in Trafalgar
Square, London.
1837 Henry Draper
(d. 1882),
doctor, astronomer1842
Henry Mayers
Hyndman (d. November 20,
1921), British
writer and politician, and the founder of the Social
Democratic Federation
1844
Anthony Comstock
(d.
September 21,
1915),
United States Postal Inspector and politician
dedicated to ideas of
Victorian morality. Comstock Films, a company
that produces erotic documentaries, is named after Anthony Comstock.
Head vice-hunter of the
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice,
during his career Comstock clashed with
Emma Goldman,
Margaret Sanger,
Victoria
Woodhull,
Tennessee Claflin and
Ida Craddock,
among thousands of others.
His
Comstock Law made illegal the delivery or
transportation of "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material as well as any
methods of, or information pertaining to,
birth control.
1845
Daniel David
Palmer (DD Palmer; d.
October 20,
1913),
founder of
chiropractic medicine
Chiropractic, Bonesetting, and Cultism
Chiropractic Ethics: An Oxymoron? (PDF file)
More
 1849
Luther Burbank
('The Wizard of Horticulture'; d.
April 11,
1926),
American
horticulturist, biologist,
botanist,
originator of new fruits and flowers,
freethinker.
He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his
55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers,
grains, grasses, and vegetables.
He was a friend of the Indian mystic,
Paramahansa
Yogananda (1893 -
1952), who wrote in his
Autobiography of a Yogi:
"His heart was fathomlessly deep, long
acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice. His little home amid the
roses was austerely simple; he knew the worthlessness of luxury, the joy
of few possessions. The modesty with which he wore his scientific fame
repeatedly reminded me of the trees that bend low with the burden of
ripening fruits; it is the barren tree that lifts its head high in an
empty boast." (Yogananda, 1946, p. 352)
It is uncertain to your almanackist whether
Burbank considered himself an
agnostic, or an
atheist, but he
labelled himself an 'infidel' ('Why
I am an Infidel', January, 1926). On January 22,
1926, an article in the San Francisco Bulletin, 'I'm an
Infidel, Declares Burbank, Casting Doubt on Soul Immortality
Theory' brought him many thousands of letters from the public,
most of it opposing his skepticism. The great endeavours the
77-year-old freethinker made to write dignified replies to his critics
wore him out and he died soon after.
"Originator of the Burbank potato; gold, Wickson, apple, October purple, chalco, America, and climax plums; giant, splendor, sugar, and stoneless prunes; a new fruit, the plumcot; peachblow, Burbank, and Santa Rosa roses; gigantic forms of amaryllis, tigridia, the Shasta daisy, giant and fragrance callas; and various new apples, peaches, nuts, berries, and other valuable trees, fruits, flowers, grasses, grains, and vegetables."
Source
Burbankabilia!
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1872 Piet Mondrian
(d. 1944),
painter1875 Maurice Ravel (d. 1937),
French composer, French composer (Bolero; Daphnis
and Chloe)
1888
Frank Buck
(d. 1950),
'big game' hunter and animal collector, movie actor, director,
writer and producer
1902 Heinz Rühmann
(d. 1994), actor1904 Reinhard
Heydrich, (d. 1942) Nazi official 1908 Anna Magnani,
(d. 1973)
actress 1926 Alan Sues, actor 1930 Antony
Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, British royal and photographer, former husband of Princess
Margaret of
the United Kingdom
1934 Willard Scott,
television
broadcaster
1936 Georges Perec
(d. March 3, 1982).
P RC: writer
with
too much time on his hands?
French writer, Georges Perec, was
born in Paris on this day. His most famous work was an
example of constrained
writing. The 300-page novel A Void (La
disparition, 1969), written
entirely without using the letter 'e' and is thus a remarkable lipogram.
[If you like
constrained writing, Mike Keith's Near
a Raven is one of my faves.]
1940 Rudi Dutschke
(d. 1979),
student leader1940
Daniel J Travanti,
American actor 
1942 Tammy Faye Bakker (pictured), American evangelist
and mascara queen, former wife of disgraced televangelist Jim
Bakker (who now has another
TV show)
1942 Michael Eisner,
President of The Walt
Disney Company
1944 Ranulph
Fiennes (Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE),
British
explorer
and holder of several endurance records. Fiennes and Charles
Burton journeyed around the world on its polar axis using
surface transport only, covering approximately 83,685 km (52,000
mi) and becoming the first
people to have visited both poles by land. In 1992 Fiennes led an
expedition that discovered the lost city of Ubar
in Oman.
He is the author of thirteen books of fiction and non-fiction. 1944 Townes Van
Zandt, musician, songwriter 1945
John Heard,
American actor (Home Alone;
Gamers: The
Movie) 1945 Arthur Lee,
musician (Love)
1946 Peter
Wolf, musician (J Geils Band)1949 Ghulam Nabi
Azad, Indian politician 1950 Iris
Chacon, Puerto Rican
singer and dancer  1958 Rik Mayall,
British comedian and actor (The
Young Ones). In a 2005 poll to find The
Comedian's Comedian, he was voted amongst the top 50 comedy
acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.
Rik Mayall
fansite Hardbabe Central
Rik multimedia
(includes Young Ones audio, the hilarious 'Living Doll', with Cliff
Richard)
1964 Bret Easton
Ellis, writer
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