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Norwich
(Dame Julian of Norwich; Blessed Julian; Juliana, Anchoress at Norwich; Mother Julian of Norwich)
She was a recluse
under the direction of Benedictines
in Norwich, England. From Wikipedia:
Julian of Norwich (c. 1342 - c. 1413) is
considered to be one of the greatest English mystics.
Little is
known of her life aside from her writings. Even her name is
uncertain, the name 'Julian' coming from the Church of St
Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the
church as an anchoress. At the age
of thirty, suffering from a severe illness and believing she was on
her deathbed, Julian had a series of intense visions. These visions
would twenty years later be the source of her major work, called Sixteen Revelations
of Divine Love (c. 1393), unpublished
until 1901 when they were edited by Grace Warrack. This is believed
to be the first book written by a woman in the English
language. A modern statue of her has been added to the facade of
the Anglican Norwich
Cathedral.
She is commemorated by the Anglican
Church on May 8 and by
the Roman
Catholic Church on May 13.
Revelations
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Julian of Norwich Who was Saint
Julian?
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Festival of the Lemuralia,
festival of ghosts,
ancient Rome (also May 9 and 11)
In Roman religion, Lemures
were wandering spirits of departed loved ones. They were said to
revisit their homes at this time, and were shown respect by the
Roman people, who set aside a week to appease, or exorcise
them. We may think of it as similar, and serving a similar function
to, Halloween
(Samhain).
Eisheilige
(ice saints), southern Germany (May 11 - 15)
Feast day of St
Abban
the Hermit
An Irish-born
saint once revered in
Abingdon in
Berkshire (now
Oxfordshire),
England.
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Feast day of St Agnes of
Poitiers
Feast Day of St Andrew
Fournet
Feast Day of St Erconwald
Feast Day of St Euthymius the Enlightener
Feast day of St Gerard of
Villamagna (Gerald; Gerard of Monza)
Gerald (1174 -
1242), a
Franciscan
tertiary, is
given the title of saint, although not canonized. He is a
patron saint
of illness and the sick.
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Feast day of St Glyceria
Feast day of Blessed Imelda
Lambertini
Feast of Jeanne D'Arc (Joan of
Arc), France
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Feast day of St John the
Silent, Armenian anchoret
(Common comfrey, Symphetum
officinale, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
John the Silent (452
- 558)
was born in Nicopolis
and, after serving as a bishop, became a
hermit.
More
Feast day of St Mael
Feast day of St Merewenna
Feast day of St Mucius
Feast day of St Natalis of
Milan
Feast day of St Onesimus
Feast day of
Our Lady of
Fatima
Our Lady of Fatima is the title given to the Blessed Virgin
Mary
by those who believe that she appeared to three shepherd children at
Fαtima, Portugal on the 13th day of six consecutive
months in 1917, starting on May 13, the Fatima holiday. As early as
July, Mary had
promised a miracle for the final apparition, on
October 13,
so that all would believe. What transpired became known as 'Miracle
of the Sun', witnessed by as many as 100,000 people.
Feast day of Our Lady of
the Most Blessed Sacrament
Feast day of St Peter Regalati, confessor
Feast day of St
Robert Bellamine (formerly
September 17,
qv)
Feast day of St Servatus
( Gervatius; Servatius of Maastricht), Bishop of Tongeren
(Tongres)
First bishop
of Maastricht,
he was probably a rich man, because he was able to travel throughout the Roman empire.
He introduced Christianity
to the Netherlands
when he built over the Roman temple of the goddess Fortuna
and god Jupiter,
the Church of Our Dear Lady, still a very important religious site
in Maastricht, where Servatus is patron
saint.
It is believed that the basilica of Our
Lady Star of the Sea in Maastricht might also have been built by
this saint upon the site of a pagan shrine. Two medieval vitae
place Servatus's birth in Armenia
and made him a distant relative of John
the Baptist. It was said that Servatus became a priest and
guardian of the Holy
Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
St Peter
handed Servatius the key to the Gates of Heaven, which gave
Servatius the power to forgive sins, and to open or lock the Gates.
Or, so it is said.
It is believed St Servatus died in
Maastricht on this day in 384.
A procession of his gilded reliquary
is still carried out from the Basilica
of Saint Servatus on the Vrijthof in at Maastricht every seven
years. Treasures that have become associated with the saint are a crozier,
a staff, a pectoral
cross a chalice,
and the very key to Heaven awarded him in his vision in Rome. At the
end of the 12th century, Henric van Veldeke wrote his
legend about the life of the saint, which he based on the story of
St Gregory
of Tours to which he added many further miracles emphasising
Saint Servatus' saintliness.
Servatus is one of the four Eisheilige
(ice saints).
"In art, Saint Servatus is generally a
bishop with three wooden shoes. He may sometimes be portrayed
(1) at a reading desk with a shield by him with three wooden
shoes; (2) being met at the city gate by burghers as he holds
the key and is attended by an angel; (3) with a key in one hand,
placing his crozier on a dragon; (4) striking water; or (5) with
an eagle fanning him as he sleeps in the sun dressed as a
pilgrim (Roeder). Servatus is invoked against foot troubles,
lameness, rheumatism, rats, and mice (Roeder)."
Source
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of his tomb More
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Our Lady of Fatima,
Portugal and Macau
Pilgrimage to Fatima's Shrine,
Garibaldi, Brazil
Jamestown Day, USA (establishment of
the first permanent English settlement in America, May 13, 1607)
Abbotsbury
Garland Day,
Abbotsbury, Dorset, UK
Traditionally, on this day children
would go round the
village with large garlands, asking for gifts from the inhabitants.
When the round was completed, they headed for the beach, where they
placed flowers in boats, and put out to sea not for
Neptune to do with as he wanted, because the flowers were brought back again,
taken to the church, where a service was held. It was a Christianized pagan superstition, for the
floral tributes, if Neptune is to be worshipped, should be committed
to the waves. The idea was to propitiate the god and bring luck in
fishing.
Source
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Civic ceremonies
commemorating the signing of the 'Law Aureal' ('Golden Law')
by Princess Isabel in 1888, which abolished slavery in Brazil.
World
Fair Trade Day (2006)
Rotuma
Day, Fiji
Commemorates the anniversary of the
cession of the
island of Rotuma,
a Fijian
dependency, to the
United Kingdom
in 1881.
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1655 Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
1699 Marquis of Pombal (d. 1782), Portuguese prime
minister
1717 Maria Theresa of Austria (d. 1780), Empress
of the Holy Roman Empire
1792 Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti (later Pope Pius IX; d. 1878),
author of conservative document Syllabus of Errors. During his reign, the doctrine of the Immaculate
Conception (ie, that Mary was preserved by God from the
transmission of original sin at the time of her own
conception) and dogma of papal
infallibility were defined.
1828
Josephine
Butler, English women's rights campaigner1840 Alphonse Daudet, French novelist
(Tartarin de Tarascon; Le Petit Chose)
1842 Sir Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan (d. 1900),
English composer of operettas (The Mikado;
The Pirates of
Penzance) and church music ('Onward, Christian Soldiers'
[lyrics by folklorist
Sabine
Baring-Gould];
'Nearer, My God, to Thee')
1857
Sir
Ronald Ross, Indian-born British bacteriologist
who won the 1902
Nobel Prize for Medicine for his discovery of the transmission of
malaria by the female
Anopheles
mosquito
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1882 Georges Braque (d. 1963), French Cubist
painter
1894 Αsgeir Αsgeirsson, second president of Iceland
1907 Dame Daphne du Maurier (d. 1989), English
novelist
1913 Gil
Evans, jazz
musician
1923
Beatrice Arthur,
American comedy actress best known for her television roles, often
as an acerbic liberal (Mary
Tyler Moore Show;
Maude;
The Golden Girls)
1931 Jim
Jones (d. 1978),
American cult leader who
led hundreds of followers to death in Jonestown, a Central American
commune
1937 Roger Zelazny (d. 1995), science fiction author
1937 Roch
Carrier, Canadian novelist and National Librarian
1939 Harvey Keitel, actor
1941
Ritchie Valens
(Richard Steven Valenzuala), American singer ('La Bamba'); he
died in plane crash with Buddy Holly and the
Big Bopper
on February 3, 1959
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1941 Senta
Berger, Austrian actress and producer
1942
Richard Butler, Australian
diplomat, United
Nations weapons inspector (head of United
Nations Special Commission, or UNSCOM, the UN weapons inspection
organization in Iraq,),
and Governor
of Tasmania. On December
16, 1998 Butler withdrew the WMD inspection team from Iraq, to protect his
staff from an imminent air strike by American and UK bombers. This
event has often been deceitfully characterized by many, especially
those in favour of the illegal invasions of Iraq (1998 and 2001), as
an expulsion by President Saddam
Hussein. The facts of the story, as recounted by Butler himself,
are laid out at November
14 in the Book of Days.
1944 Armistead Maupin, American author
1947 Stephen R Donaldson, author
1950
Stevland Hardaway Judkins. Too
much oxygen in the incubator left him permanently blind. This,
however, was not a handicap to Steveland's musical talents as a
singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. At the tender age of
ten, Little Stevie Wonder
as he was called by Berry Gordy at Motown was discovered
playing the harmonica and singing.
1966
Darius Rucker, Hootie & The Blowfish
frontman
1979 Prince
Carl Philip
of Sweden
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384 Death
of St Servatus (see above).
1497 Pope
Alexander VI excommunicated Girolamo Savonarola.
1501
Amerigo Vespucci
departed Lisbon on the voyage that saw the New World named after him (though
this is disputed).1568 Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary Queen of Scots were defeated by a
confederacy of Scottish
Protestants
under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her
half-brother.
1607 The
Virginia Company, under the command of
the English privateer, Captain
Christopher Newport, founded the colony of
Jamestown,
Virginia, in
Chesapeake Bay. Captain
John Smith and 105 cavaliers in three
ships landed on the Virginia coast, starting the first permanent English settlement in the New World at Jamestown.
Jamestown: The
Birth of American Polonia, 1608-2008
1619 Dutch
statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was executed in The Hague
after having been accused of treason.
1648 Construction
of the Red Fort
at Dehli was
completed.
1665 North America: A statute was enacted (in
future Rhode Island), offering the status of freeman with no specifically
Christian requirements, thus effectively enfranchising Jews.
1779
War of
the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators
at the
Congress of Teschen negotiated an end to the
war. In the agreement Austria received the a part of its territory that was taken
from it (the Inn District).
1787
The 'First Fleet'
carrying convicts to establish a penal
colony in Australia
(eleven ships carrying 1,473 people) set sail from Spit Head, Portsmouth, England under
the command of Captain Arthur
Phillip.
1794 The Whiskey Rebellion
began in western Pennsylvania, USA. The War of Independence only just over,
people who had recently become 'Americans' took up arms against their own 'revolutionary' government and fought for autonomy.
Settlers
in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania openly
rebelled and burned the farm of a local Federal Marshall. George
Washington invoked the Militia Law of
1792 to call out the militias of
several states.
Source: The Daily Bleed
and Wikipedia
1830 Ecuador gained
its independence following the break-up of the former state of Gran
Colombia.
1835
'Batmania'
was suggested as the name for the settlement that became Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, after John
Batman who founded the European settlement there.
"Batman's treaty with the local Aborigines is a
remarkable event in Australian history. Batman is practically the only white
man in the 19th century to acknowledge that Aborigines owned land.
Furthermore, he undertook not to buy it from them but to undertake an annual
rental for what was then not an inconsiderable amount of food and goods.
Whether this was done in the proper way and for a fair amount is
questionable, but it contrasts strongly with virtually all other acts of
Australian settlement in the 19th century which involved no acknowledgement
of ownership, no rental and a straightforward taking of the land." Source
 1839
The
Rebecca
Riots began,
Efailwen,
Wales
Led by a huge, 33-year-old man named
Thomas
Rees, aka Twm Carnabwth, a group of men dressed in women's clothing, calling themselves the Merched
Beca ('Daughters of Rebecca'), burned down a hated
toll-gate at Efailwen
(Yr Efail Wen), Carmarthenshire, Wales. A few weeks later they
destroyed the toll-gate at Maesgwynne.
The Rebecca Riots, as they
were known, were direct actions by poor Welsh tenant farmers and farm workers
against turnpikes
gates set across roads to prevent passage until a toll had been paid. Until that
time, most tollkeepers had allowed locals to pass through for free, but now
Thomas Bullin, a wealthy turnpike owner, made sure that all who passed through,
paid.
There had been a bad crop that year, as well as a rapid
increase in population and the imposition of a money economy upon a rural
society dominated by a small landowning class. The tolls were the last straw.
This Act of Parliament is typical of the imposition
placed on all, except for special exemptions for such dignitaries as clergy:
nor shall any Toll be paid by any Rector, Vicar,
or Curate, going to or returning from any Church, Chapel, or other Place of
Religious Worship, or visiting his sick Parishioners, or any other [part of] his
Parochial or Ministerial Duty, nor by any other Person or Persons residing in
the said Parishes, Townships, Districts or Places, who shall pass through the
said Turnpike Bars to or from Church, Chapel, or any other Place of Religious
Worship, or who shall attend the Funeral of any Person or Persons who shall die
and be buried in any of the said Parishes, Townships or Places
[carting of
hay, corn, produce, farm implements and] Mould, Dung or Compost for the manuring
of Lands [was also exempt unless they were being brought into or through the
area]
An Act for making and maintaining a Road from a Place called Nantgaredig,
adjoining the Turnpike Road leading from the Town of Llandilofawr to the
Town of Carmarthen, through the Village of Brechfa, to the River Tivy,
near Llanllooney Church; and also a Road from Brechfa aforesaid
to the Village of Llansawell, all in the County of Carmarthen [Wales],
May 20, 1809 Source
Why the protesters were known as 'daughters of
Rebecca' is not known, but it is probable that the following Biblical verse
provides the derivation, as these were devout Protestant men protecting
their livelihoods, and because of the reference to 'gate':
And they
blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou [art] our sister, be thou [the mother]
of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate
them.
Genesis
24:60
The first such disturbances had actually started
decades earlier, in England. In October 1735, two rioters were killed at
Ledbury, then Somerset and Gloucestershire followed, and, in 1753, there were protests in
Yorkshire. By November 1842, the
Rebeccaist movement of South Wales had spread to the industrialized Gwendraeth
Valley and it reached a peak in 1843 .
Anglican clergymen from the
established Church of
Wales were targets on several occasions. The riots ceased after several ring
leaders were convicted and
transported to
Australia.
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Rebecca's Daughters at
the Internet
Movie Database
1844 Spain established a military peacekeeping force, the Guardia
Civil.
1846 Mexican-American War: The United
States declared war on Mexico.
1848 First
performance of Finland's
national anthem.
1853 Australia: Sydney Mint opened.
1861 American Civil War: Victoria of the United Kingdom issued
a 'proclamation of neutrality' which recognised the breakaway states as having belligerent
rights.
1864 American
Civil War: Battle of Resaca the battle began with Union
General Sherman fighting towards Atlanta.
1865 American
Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch - In far south Texas, more than a
month after Confederate General Lee's
surrender, the last land battle of the civil war
ended with a Union victory.
1880 In
Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas
Edison performed the first test of his
electric railway.
1888 Slavery was
abolished in Brazil.
No country imported more African slaves than did Brazil.
The last Brazilian slave, Maria do Carmo
Jeronimo, died on June
14, 2000 at the age of 129, having lived in three centuries.
1891 Henrik Ibsen's controversial play,
Ghosts,
opened in London to a hostile audience and critical press.
1910 This
historic photograph shows a wide-angle view of Halley's Comet as
it appeared over Flagstaff, Arizona, USA on May 13, 1910. The streaks at lower
left are the city lights of Flagstaff, and the large bright object below the
comet is the planet Venus. The
best known of all comets, Halley orbits the Sun, and travels close enough to be
seen from the Earth approximately once every 75 years. Its appearances have been
recorded at least 30 times over the past 2000 years, and scientists have
accurately predicted its return starting with its appearance in 1758.
Source:
NASA
1912 In
the United
Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (now the Royal
Air Force) was established.
1913 Igor
Sikorsky became the first person to pilot a four engine aircraft.
 1917 Fatima let the
apparitions begin
Mary, Queen of Heaven or goddess?
appears to kids
During the dark days of the First World War, an event happened in a Portuguese
village that has profoundly affected the Roman Catholic Church ever since.
According to Catholic tradition over nearly the last
century, the Blessed Virgin
Mary ('the Mother of
God'), appeared six times to three shepherd children ('the Three Seers') above a holmoak tree in a chickpea field near the town of Fatima,
Portugal. These apparitions commenced on this day and continued until
October 13, 1917
Fatima is also the name of an ancient Arabian goddess and she is
identified also as the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed ...
"She is
called Zahra, the radiant one, a universal motif and a characteristic of all
saints. She is also called Batul, meaning virgin. She is Queen of mankind and
is compared to Mary and is called Maryam and like Mary she is Queen of Heaven.
She is the first woman who will enter the paradise and all those who accompany
her or have prayed to her will also enter paradise and their sins will be
forgiven, she is their shafes and protector. She is mohadatheh, the one who
talks and is in contact with angles [sic]. In fact angles are at her service.
Archangel Gabriel representing the Holy Ghost praises her at her incredible
wedding in heaven and angles [sic] assist her when she is giving birth to her
children and are present at her deathbed.
"She is pure (tahereh), sinless and becomes one of the 14 innocents and one
of the holy five (panj tan). She is a major archetype with her own cult. There
are prayers for her and a major all female feast, sofreh hazrat i zahra, is
still very popular with Muslim women. Sofreh feasts are Zoroastrian in origin
and are mainly practiced by Iranians." Source
Last of
'Fatima vision' trio dies Last Fatima Virgin
witness dies
Three
Secrets of Fatima
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Lourdes
apparitions of Mary
1933 A large mural in the Rockefeller Centre, New York, by artist
Diego Rivera, and commissioned by Nelson
Rockefeller, was scraped off the wall
because it contained a large portrait of Lenin.
1935 TE
Lawrence ('Lawrence of Arabia') critically injured himself in a motorcycle
crash. He died on May 19.
1940 World War
II: Nazi
Germany's conquest of France began as the German army
crossed the Meuse River. Churchill
made his "blood, tears, toil and sweat" speech to the British House of Commons.
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands fled the
Nazi invasion in
the Netherlands
to Great
Britain. Princess Juliana brought her
children to Canada
for their safety.
1943 World
War II: German
Afrika
Korps and Italian
troops in North Africa surrendered to Allied forces.
1949 Britain's
first jet bomber, the Canberra, was
test flown at Warton, Lancashire, UK.
1955 The
first riot at an Elvis Presley concert took place.
1958 During
a visit to Caracas,
Venezuela,
Vice President Richard
M Nixon's car was attacked by anti-American
demonstrators.
1958 Pierre Pflimlin became Prime Minister of France
1958 Velcro's
trade mark was registered. The fastening product was invented in 1948 by George
de Mestral, a Swiss engineer. The idea came to him after he took a
close look at the seed pod burrs which kept sticking to his dog on their daily walk
in the Alps. De
Mestral named his invention after the French words velour, meaning
'velvet', and crochet, meaning 'hook'.
1958
Right-wing French settlers seized government buildings in Algiers as
pro-independence turmoil grew in the streets.
1960 First
ascent of Dhaulagiri,
7th highest mountain
1968
May 1968, Paris: The Sorbonne University in Paris was occupied
by students and others in the May
upheaval. This was the first in the series of occupations that lasted throughout
the month and into June.
On this day, discontent with the government spread into the labour force and
workers began joining in the protest with a series of strikes and factory
occupations.
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& action page Protest
pictures (current)
1968 In Washington DC, USA, Resurrection
City arose, a demonstration by the Poor People's Campaign.
1969 Race
riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
later known as the May 13 Incident.
1971 On his
21st birthday, American musician Stevie Wonder received $1
million only of the estimated $30 million of his earnings as child star Little
Stevie.
Wilson's
Almanac Book of Days hip list
1981 Mehemet
Ali Agca attempted to assassinate Pope
John Paul II at
St Peter's Square in Rome.
1984
Australia's
one dollar coin went into circulation, replacing banknotes.
1985 Philadelphia, USA, police and a radical black cult named MOVE clashed when MOVE's headquarters were
bombed on the orders of Mayor
Wilson Goode. Eleven people died and 61 homes to
250 residents were destroyed in the extraordinary event. Said one resident,
"MOVE
in its wildest day never perpetrated anything on our block like what Wilson
Goode did." However, good Mayor Goode thought otherwise, and said that
the action he ordered was "perfect, except for the fire".
Parole denied for two more MOVE members
1986 A
cucumber grown by Eileen Chappel of Brisbane, claimed a new Australian record at
the weight of 22 kg.
1989 British
former pilot Jackie Mann was kidnapped in Beirut.
1989 Australia: The Green
Party gained the balance of power in
Legislative Assembly, Tasmania.
1990 In
Bogota, Colombia, a car bomb killed 26.
1996 Severe
thunderstorms
and a tornado
in Bangladesh
killed 600.
1998 Following India's
second round of nuclear tests, the United
States and Japan
imposed economic sanctions on the nation.
2000
In Enschede,
the Netherlands,
a fireworks
factory exploded, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in
approximately 450 million in damage.
2005
The Andijan
Massacre occurred in Uzbekistan
when Uzbek
troops fired into a crowd of protesters in the eastern city of Andijan,
killing an estimated 400 to 1000 people.
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