 (Formerly) Feast
Day of St Simeon
Stylites, the Younger
(Fleabane, Inula dysenterica, was
today's plant,
dedicated to this saint.)
Born at
Antioch in 521, he died there on May 24, 597, and that is now his feast
day. He spent 69 years perched atop a pillar.
"Simeon's father died when the boy
was five years old, and he became the ward of a monk named John who lived nearby.
When Simeon was seven, the two moved onto platforms at the top of
pillars in order to ensure their solitude. Word spread about the
sanctity and wisdom of the pair; they attracted so many pilgrims and would-be disciples
that at age 20, Simeon came down from his pillar to hide in the
mountains. Ten years later there were more would-be students, and
this time Simeon decided to help them; he built a monastery for them, and in it
placed a pillar for himself. Ordained at age 35; the bishop climbed onto the platform to
impose his hands. Simeon celebrated Mass on his platform, and the monks climbed a ladder to receive Communion.
Healer and miracle worker, he spent 69 of his 76 years living
off the ground." Source
Simeon the
Younger is not the same as Simeon Stylites the Elder, feast day January 5.
And another Simeon Stylites
"Simeon Stylites III, another pillar hermit, who also bore
the name Simeon, is honoured by both the Greeks and the Copts. He is
hence believed to have lived in the fifth century before the breach
which occurred between these Churches. But it must be confessed that
very little certain is known of him. He is believed to have been
struck by lightning upon his pillar, built near Hegca in Cicilia."
Source
Slavic Pagan Day of Remembrance for the Pagan People of Novgorod
"When the people of Novgorod were notified that Dobrinja wanted to Christianize them, they held a
'Veche' (Thing) and decided to swear an oath: 'Do not let Dobrinja into town. Do not let our idols be destroyed.' Dobrinja sent word to them offering them silver, but the people refused him and would not let him enter the city.
'The highest Volvh under the direction of a Slavic Pagan Priest, named Bogomil, (also known as Nightengale or
"Solovey"), Voevoda Ugonay goes on to declare, went about the city on a horse, declaring with a loud voice:
"Better for us to die than to let our Gods see disgrace." However,
Dobrinja prevaled and each of the idols were cast into the river and
the wooden sculptures were incinerated. This, truly, was a day of
great mourning and sadness for the Pagan People ...'"
Iokimovskaja Letopis Source
Baffin Land, Canada: Feast of Atqksak
Source: The Daily Bleed
Feast day of
St Aigulf
Feast day of
St Andrew Dotti
Feast day of
St Angus MacNisse
Feast day of
St Anthony Ishida (Ixida)
Feast day of Ss Aristeus and
Antoninus
Feast day of
St Auxanus
Feast day of
St Balin
Feast day of
St Bartholomew
Gutierrez
Feast day of
St Basilissa of
Nicomedia
Feast day of
St Brigida of
Jesus
Feast day of
St Cuthberga of
Wimbourne, widow
Feast day of
St Francis Ortego
Feast day of
St Frugentius of
Fleury
Feast day of
St Gabriel of
Saint Magdalen
He was burned alive in 1632 at Nagasaki, Japan.
Feast day of
St Gregory the
Great, pope
Feast day of
St Guala
Feast day of
St Hereswitha
Feast day of
St Herman of
Heidelberg
Feast day of
St Jerome of
the Cross de Torres
Feast day of
St John of
Perugia
Feast day of
St Macanisius
(Macnisius), first Bishop of Connor, in Ireland
Feast day of
St Mansuet (Mansuetus), first Bioshop of Toul, in Lorraine
Feast day of
St Marinus of
San Marino
Tradition has it that he was
a blacksmith
or stonemason by trade who came from the island of Rab
on the other side of the Adriatic
Sea (modern Croatia).
In religious art Marinus is portrayed in art as a bearded man with a stonemason's
hammer; as a young deacon with a hammer; or with two oxen near him.
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Feast day of
St Martin de Hinojosa
Feast day of
the Martyrs of
September (also Sep 2)
Feast day of
St Maurilius
Feast day of
St Natalis
Feast day of
St Peter of
Sassoferrato
Feast day of
St Phoebe of
Cenchreae
Feast day of
St Quenburga (Oenburga)
of Wimbourne
Feast day of
St Regulus of
Rheims
Feast day of
St Feast day of St Remaclus,
Bishop of Maestricht
Feast
day of St Sandila
Feast day of
St Vincent Carvalho
Feast
day of Ss Zeno and Chariton
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 Eve of the feast day of St Rose of
Viterbo (1235 - March 6, 1252)
The
'Macchina di Santa
Rosa', Viterbo, Italy.
Wikipedia says: The transport of the
Macchina di S. Rosa takes place every year, on September 3, at 9 o'clock in the evening. The Macchina is an artistic illuminated bell-tower with an imposing height of 30
metres. 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: Progetto per la Macchina di S.
Rosa, Angelo Papini Source
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Macchina images through history
"The origin of the 'Machine' can be traced back to September 4, 1258, when St Rosa's corpse, found untouched by decay, was moved from the church where it had been buried to the monastery that, since then, became her Sanctuary.
"It was from this procession that came the tradition of carrying and transforming the altar, on the top of which an image of the saint was placed, resting under a canopy that was few metres high. It became the way in which the citizens of Viterbo commemorated the event every year, which is documented from the end of 1600.
"From the 18th century the 'Machine' began to grow in height to reach the appearance it has maintained until our day: a contraption some 30 metres high carried through the city streets by about a hundred men called
'Facchini' (porters)."
Source:
Thank you Sylvia de Vanna for translating
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Sunrise dance,
Apache (Aug 31- Sep 3)
The sunrise dance is a puberty ceremony – or na'ii'ees
('preparing her,' or 'getting her ready') – for young women.
Lakon, Hopi Indian
"Women's healing ceremony for maidens of the four directions."
Source: The Phoenix and
Arabeth 1992 Calendar
Late
August, Early September,
Freeing the
Insects, Japan
Yatsuo Kaze-No-Bon, or Wind Bon
Event, at Nei-Gun, Toyama Prefecture, Japan (Sep 1 - 3)
Jinja
Matsuri, or Shrine Festival, at Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
(Sep 1 - 3)
Ganesh
Chaturthi (Hinduism; date
varies annually, approx.
Aug 20
to Sep 15)
Independence
Day, Qatar
(from Great Britain, 1971)
Foundation, San
Marino, by St Marinus
(in 301)
Armed
Forces Day, Taiwan/Republic
of China
Flag
Day, Australia
Callach,
Ireland
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1499 Diane de Poitiers, lover of Henry II of France
1728 Matthew Boulton
(d.
August 18, 1809), English manufacturer and engineer
who
pioneered the steam engine with James Watt.
Like Watt,
Boulton was a key member of the Lunar Society.
Other names associated with this remarkable club include
Erasmus Darwin,
Samuel
Galton, Jr, Joseph
Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood,
Sir Richard
Arkwright, John
Baskerville, Benjamin
Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson, Anna Seward and Thomas
Wedgwood.
1781 Eugène de Beauharnais
(d. 1824), son of
Napoleon's wife,
Josephine
1803
Prudence
Crandall (d.
1890), American
educator, creator of the first
racially integrated classroom in the United States
She "maintained the
nation's first private secondary school for 'Young Ladies of
Color' for over a year and a half," and "became a symbol in the
cause of African American education and abolitionism."
Source
Early progressives in the Book of Days
1810 Paul Kane,
Canadian
painter
1811
John
Humphrey Noyes (d.
April 13,
1886),
American
utopian
socialist who founded the
Oneida
Community in 1848
Early progressives in the Book of Days
CounterCulture Wiki
1827 John Ernst Worrell Keely (d. November 18,
1898),
US inventor
from Philadelphia
who invented the Keely Motor, an induction resonance motion motor,
supposedly using "etheric technology"
– but when his investors demanded
that he create a marketable product, he refused and said that he
needed to do more experiments.
KeelyNet Site of Keely supporters
Keely
Motor Company The Museum
of Unworkable Devices Main Gallery
Keely Motor
Company 1884 Perpetual
Motion Machine
The science of
Oneness The aether as spherical light and sound
Chapter
eight: Keely and the physics of vibration
Sympathetic Vibratory Physics
Eric's History of
Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines Museum of
Unworkable Devices
Related: Charles
Redheffer's fake perpetual motion fraud Hoaxes
and frauds, in the Scriptorium
1849 Sarah Orne Jewett, writer
1875 Ferdinand Porsche (d. 1951), German
automotive engineer
1883 Harold DeForest
Arnold, American physicist whose research led to the development of
radio communication and long-distance telephony
1887 Frank Christian (d. 1973), jazz
musician
1899 Sir Frank MacFarlane
Burnet (d. August
31, 1985), Australian virologist
who worked on such diseases as influenza, polio and cholera; awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1960,
along with Peter Brian Medawar. Australia's
favourite scientist had a very ugly side, only recently exposed:
"World-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel prize winner revered as Australia's greatest medical research scientist, secretly urged the government to develop biological weapons for use against Indonesia and other "overpopulated" countries of South-East Asia."
Burnet's solution: The plan to poison S-E Asia
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1902 Mantan Moreland (d. 1973), actor
1907
Loren
Eiseley (d. 1977),
American anthropologist
1910 Kitty
Carlisle, actress, television
personality
1913 Alan Ladd (d. 1964), American actor
(This Gun for Hire;
Shane). He
frequently teamed with sultry Veronica Lake (most
effectively in 1942's The Glass Key and
1946's The Blue
Dahlia), partly because their onscreen chemistry was good,
and partly because she was shorter than he was. In The Carpetbaggers he
played an aging, washed up movie star. He died by his own hand
shortly after his 50th birthday.
"Throughout the 1940s his tough-guy roles filled
theatres and he was one of very few males whose cover photos sold
movie magazines. In the 1950s he obtained lucrative but
unrewarding roles (exception, what many regard as his greatest
movie, "Shane" released in 1953). By the end of the fifties,
liquor and a string of so-so movies had taken their toll. In
November 1962 he was found unconscious lying in a pool of blood
with a bullet wound near his heart. In January 1964 he was found
dead, apparently due to an accidental combination of alcohol and
sedatives." Source
1918 Helen
Wagner, American soap
opera actress
1923 Mort
Walker, cartoonist
1926 Anne Jackson, actress
1927 Hugh Sidey, contributing editor at Time Magazine
1929 Irene
Papas, actress
1930 Cherry
Wilder, author
1933 Tompall Glaser, country music singer
1938 Caryl Churchill, playwright
1938 Ryoji
Noyori, Japanese chemist
1938 Eileen Brennan, actress
1942 Al
Jardine, rock and roll musician, member of the Beach
Boys
1943 Valerie Perrine, American
actress
1947 Kjell Magne Bondevik Prime Minister of Norway
1955 Steve
Jones, musician (Sex
Pistols)
1964 Adam
Curry, MTV
VJ and Internet
entrepreneur
1965 Charlie Sheen (born Carlos
Irwin Estevez),
judgement-impaired actor, Platoon; Wall Street. Son of
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