 Lazarus Saturday (2004), the day
before Palm
Sunday
A note about the dating of
items in Wilson’s Almanac
Lazarus Saturday remembers the resurrection of Lazarus
from the dead. On Lazarus Saturday believers often prepare palm
fronds by knotting them into crosses in preparation for the
procession on Sunday. In the Russian Orthodox Church, the
custom developed of using pussy willows instead of palm fronds
because palm fronds were not readily available.
From Wikipedia: In the New Testament,
Lazarus (אֶלְעָזָר
"God
has helped") is the name of a figure in one of Jesus' parables,
recorded in the Gospel of Luke
16:19-31. "Lazarus is the beggar at the rich man's table, who
receives his reward in the Hereafter, in Abraham's bosom at the
everlasting banquet, while the rich man craves a drop of water from
Lazarus's finger."
Lazarus is also a man mentioned several
times in the four Gospels, who lived in
the town of Bethany
with his sisters Mary
and Martha. He
is best known for being raised from the grave four days after his
death by Jesus,
according to the Gospel of John
ch. 11. Again according to this gospel, many Jews visited
Lazarus after this and believed in Jesus in part because of Lazarus'
resurrection. The Gospels say no more of Lazarus.
In Hebrew, the god Osiris
(whose name in demotic/haeroglyphics is thought to have been
pronounced Aser) is also translated Elaser (from "El"
meaning god and "Aser"). There are several similarities
with the story of Osiris being raised from the dead, such as the
location. In the Bible the raising is placed in "Bethany"
(which in Hebrew can also be "Beth-Anu", "Beth"
meaning "house"), wheras in the Osiris legend, it is
placed in the house of the dead (which in demotic is a place named
"Annu"). This similarity is used by some scholars to
suggest that the Lazarus story is part of a general body of works
shared between Mystery
religions in the Mediterranean,
which became absorbed into the Jesus story. Note that
an alternative rendering of El and Aser is Aserel, i.e. Azrael,
the angel of death.
According to Christian
mythology recorded in the 13th century Golden Legend,
Lazarus was the brother of Martha and Mary Magdalene,
a Pharisee,
but because of the rumoured plots fled for his life to Cyprus,
where he later became a Christian bishop and lived
another thirty years. Stories say that he would always include
something sweet in every meal, but that he was only known to laugh
once in that time. That was when he observed someone stealing a clay pot,
causing him to smile and say with a laugh, "clay stealing
clay". Medieval tradition also sent Mary, Martha, and Lazarus
to France
after the Crucifixion, and
pilgrims visited their tombs at the abbey of Vézelay in Burgundy.
The cathedral of Autun, not far away,
is dedicated to Lazarus (Saint Lazaire).
Lazarus is also the name of the beggar
before the door of Dives in the parable of Lazarus and
Dives in the Book of Luke.
Folklore, customs, pre-Christian origins
of:
Shrove Tuesday
(Pancake Day) Ash Wednesday
and Lent
Mid-Lent
Care Sunday
Painful
Friday Lazarus Saturday Palm Sunday
Spy Wednesday
Maundy
Thursday Good Friday
Easter
Saturday Easter
Easter Monday
Hocktide
Ascension
Rogation
Days Whitsunday/Whitsuntide
Candlemas/Imbolc
May
Day/Beltaine Lammas/Lughnasadh
Halloween/Samhain
Advent
Christmas
Eve Christmas
Epiphany
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of feast days of saints, gods and goddesses at Wilson's Almanac
Book of Days
Feast day of SS Agape,
(Evergreen alkanet, Anchusa
sempervirus, is today's plant, dedicated to this saint), Chionia and Irene,
sisters, martyrs
Feast day of St Attala
Feast day of St Burgundofara
Feast day of St Fara
Feast day of St Gandulphus
of Binasco
Feast day of St John of
Penna
Feast day of St Joseph the
Hymnographer
Feast day of St Luigi
Scrosoppi
Feast day of St Mary of
Egypt
Feast day of St Nicetas, abbot
Feast day of St Richard of
Chichester
Feast day of St Sixtus I
Feast day of St
Ulpian (Vulpian), of Tyre, martyr
 Nagasaki Takoage, or Kite-Flying Event
Nagasaki, Japan (Apr 3 - 29)
Tradition says a homesick Portuguese drew a map of his homeland
and made a kite out of it, introducing kites to Japan. Usually
diamond-shaped kites are used in kite battles (tako-gassen),
sometimes with sharp bits on strings to cut opponents’ kite
strings.
The
festival is connected with the local Suwa Shrine. A procession of
kites mounted on carts follows the contest.
Bauer, Helen, and Carlquist, Sherwin, Japanese Festivals, Doubleday
& Co, Garden City, New York, 1965, p. 135, et al
1245 King Philip III
of France (d. 1285)
1367 King Henry
IV of England (d. March 20, 1413). His
father, John of Gaunt
was the third surviving son of King Edward III of
England. The later years of Henry's reign were marked by serious
health problems; he died in the
Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey (thereby hangs a tale) and
was succeeded by Henry V as King of England.
1593 George Herbert,
English poet and orator (d. 1633)
1693 George Edwards,
naturalist (d. 1773)
1769 Christian
Gunther von Bernstorff (d. 1835), Danish and
Prussian statesman and diplomat
 1783 Washington Irving (d. 1859),
American historian and author (Rip Van
Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow).
Irving's
father was a Scot, and his mother an English woman, who went to New
York in about 1763. Their son Washington was born just about at the
close of the War of Independence, so the boy was named after its
hero. At sixteen, he began to study the law, but was destined never
to follow the profession. He was too shy to address a jury, and even
at the height of his fame he could never summon the courage to speak
in public. He visited Europe at the age of 21, and on his return
wrote for his brother's newspaper.
He wrote a comic history of New York using the
pen-name Diedrich Knickerbocker, purporting to be a venerable
Dutchman. This work brought him fame; he went to England and met one
admirer, Sir Walter Scott who helped him find a publisher in England
for The Sketch
Book, which
contained two stories for which he is best remembered today, Rip
Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving was
the first American author to gain popular and critical acclaim in
Britain and Europe.
Irving then went to Paris where he wrote Bracebridge Hall and met
Thomas Moore and other literary celebrities. During his European
travels which followed, he wrote many works which increased his fame
and earned him first a diplomatic post in London, and later one in
Spain. On his return to America, he continued writing until his
death on November 28, 1859.
It was Irving who was responsible for the nickname
of New York City being ‘Gotham’. See April 1 in
the Book of Days.
1814 Lorenzo Snow, 5th
president of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1901)
1822 Edward
Everett Hale, writer, (d. 1909)
1823 William
Marcy Tweed, political boss (d. 1878)
1845
William
Farrer (d. April 16, 1906), English-born pioneer
wheat
breeder
in Australia
1880
Otto Weininger
(d. October
4, 1903),
Austrian
philosopher.
In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex
and Character); it gained popularity after Weininger's
theatrical suicide
at the age of 23. Today, the book is dismissed as sexist
and anti-Semitic
by some, however it continues to be held up as a great work of
lasting genius and spiritual wisdom by others.
1881 Alcide De
Gasperi, former Prime
Minister of Italy (d. 1954)
1885 Allan
Dwan, film director (d. 1981)
1893 Leslie Howard (d. 1943),
British actor (Of
Human Bondage, 1934; Gone With the Wind,
1939) who died when shot down by German aircraft while flying from
Portugal over the English Channel
“His screen
persona could perhaps be best summed up by his role as Sir Percy
Blakeney in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)', a foppish member of
society … In 1939, he played the character that was always be
associated with him – that of Ashley Wilkes, the honor bound
disillusioned intellectual southern gentleman in 'Gone with the
Wind'.” Source
1898 Henry
R Luce (d. February 28,
1967), Chinese-born American publisher, founder of TIME,
Life,
Fortune,
and Sports Illustrated magazines;
member of Skull and Bones;
husband of Clare Boothe Luce
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1898 George
Jessel, comedian (d. 1981)
1903 Peter
Huchel, lyricist and author of radio plays (d. 1981)
1907 Iron Eyes Cody,
actor (d. 1999)
1913 Per
Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
1916 Herb
Caen, newspaper
columnist (d. 1997)
1924 Marlon Brando,
actor (d. 2004).
Department of
Strange Coincidences
Brando's second
wife, the actress Movita,
portrayed the island girl Tehanni in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
And ... Brando's later wife, the actress Tarita, portrayed the
island girl Miamiti in Mutiny
on the Bounty (1962). Source IMDB
::Aha!:: Synchronicity Central
Oh, Marlon!
“ … During
the making of Mutiny on the Bounty, Brando managed to split
52 pairs of pants as a ‘result of his love for ice cream’
according to the film's costumer Jimmy Taylor.
“According
to (Brando’s second wife) Movita, Marlon would often drive down
to Hollywood hot dog stands late at night, and eat as many as six
hot dogs without a secong thought.
“Dick
Loving, Brando's brother in law, has said that Brando used to eat
‘two chickens at a sitting, and (go) through bags of Pepperidge
Farm cookies.’
“Once,
during the filming of The Missouri Breaks, Brando took a
frog out of a pond, took a huge bite out of it, and threw it back.
“On his
island of Tetioroa, Brando enjoyed what he called ‘real-life
Mounds Bars.’ He would crack open a coconut, melt some raw
chocolate in the sun, then stir it into the coconut and chow down.
“In the late
Eighties, Brando was spied buying five gallons of ice cream a week
from a Beverly Hills ice cream shop. He reportedly confessed that
he was eating it all himself! …” Source
“When Hollywood movies play in
Hong Kong the titles often translate strangely. ‘Boogie
Nights’ became ‘His Powerful Tool Makes Him Famous’, ‘The
Full Monty’ became ‘Six Stripped Warriors’ and ‘The
English Patient’ is ‘Don't Ask Me Who I Am’. Oddly,
‘Titanic’ is simply ‘Brando’.” Source
1924 Doris Day, actress
1925 Tony
Benn, British politician
1926 Gus
Grissom, astronaut (d. 1967)
1930 Lawton Chiles,
US politician
1930 Helmut
Kohl, politician, German
Bundeskanzler from 1982 to 1998
1934 Jane Goodall,
zoologist
1941 Jan Berry (d. March 26, 2004),
half of the Jan and Dean pop duo (with Dean Torrence)
1941 Eric Braeden,
actor
1941 Philippe Wynne,
musician (d. 1984)
1942 Marsha Mason,
actress
1942 Wayne Newton,
singer
1943 Jonathan Lynn,
British actor
and comedy
writer
1944 Tony Orlando, American pop singer (international hit: Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
1949 Richard
Thompson, musician, songwriter
1956 Ray
Combs, game show host,
comedian (d. 1996)
1958 Alec Baldwin,
actor
1959 David Hyde
Pierce, actor
1961 Eddie Murphy,
actor and comedian
1962 Mike
Ness, musician (Social
Distortion)
1968 Sebastian Bach,
musician (Skid Row)
1979 David
Willis, artist (Roomies, It's Walky!,
Shortpacked)
1986 Amanda Bynes,
teen actress and show host
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33 Crucifixion of Jesus
(traditional date).
628
Roman emperor Heraclius recovered all the Byzantine territories that had been
lost to Persia.
“He also recaptured the so-called True Cross. The
True Cross had been found buried in Palestine during a time when trade in
religious relics brought huge profits. Although when it was first found it
looked as if it had been made yesterday, it inexplicably began to rot and
crumble as if it were just regular wood. It was divied up and sold in chunks.
Pieces of this rotten relic are today sealed in small nitrogen lockets to
prevent further decay, and are routinely used to impress children.” Source
963 Death of William
III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915).
1203 The sixteen-year-old English
Prince Arthur Plantagenet
(born 1187) was murdered at Rouen, France
by his uncle, King John. Shakespeare wrote of this event in The Life and Death
of King John (A History) (a play in which King John’s more celebrated
signing of the Magna Carta
on June 15, 1215 is not even mentioned). In the Bard’s play, Arthur
pleaded with Hubert
(King John’s chamberlain, who was bound to kill the boy but decided to blind
him with a hot poker, as disabilities
precluded kingship) to spare his eyes, and Hubert relented.
1222 An Arabic prophecy foretold that when Easter fell on April the 3rd,
the religion of Muhammad (c. 570 - June 8, 632)
would be abolished. This occurred in 1222, so many expected that ‘King
David’ and his host would offer their support to the Christian army of
Frederick II.
This supposed ‘King David’ was actually the
Mongolian conqueror, Genghis
Khan (c. 1165 - 1227), who at
this time with three legions pushed forward towards the West, destroying the
power of Islam in Central Asia. He and
many of his successors were favourable to the Christians, and averse to the
Muslims, whom they slaughtered in huge numbers, as did the Christians.
1287 Death of
Pope Honorius
IV (b. c. 1210)
1559 The treaty,
Peace
of Cateau-Cambrésis, was signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1847 USA: The Arkansas Intellegencer
newspaper reported that Choctaw Indians, on learning of the
Irish Potato Famine, sent
$710 to a famine relief fund in Ireland.
Mary Robinson, the President of Ireland, visited the Choctaw Nation
on May 23, 1995 to convey
her nation's thanks for this act of generosity from the Choctaws. President Robinson,
who had been made a Chief of the Choctaw Nation, spoke to the Choctaw people in their
native language, "Chahta I yakne ala li kut na sa yukpa." Then she translated, "I am glad to have come to Choctaw Country."
President Robinson added: "I believe that we have
in common that bond of humanity and it should be an additional reason why we
should particularly reach out now to countries who suffer from poverty and
hunger. I think it is very important that we should try to give leadership in
that and that we try to encourage others to understand that there are people
today who need the support that the Choctaw Nation gave 150 years ago to the
Irish people."
Celtic dancers danced with Choctaw dancers during the ceremony.
The Choctaw tribe had had its own tragedy not long
before its generous gift to the starving Irish: Indian removal. See Trail of Tears in the
Book of Days (1838).
Nearly 150 years later, a group of eight Irish people retraced the
Trail of Tears from Oklahoma to Mississippi to repay the longstanding debt to the
Choctaws.
They began the 500-mile trek from Oklahoma, to Missouri, roughly retracing, in reverse, the government-forced relocation of the tribe in 1831 from its homeland to what was then wilderness.
Louisburgh,
County Mayo, Ireland 'Trail of Tears'
"In March 1847, a large body of starving people gathered in Louisburgh seeking assistance from the relieving officer. He informed them that they would have to apply to the Board of Guardians who were to meet next day at Delphi Lodge, ten miles away. Having spent the night in the open, they proceeded on foot to Delphi. When they reached Delphi, the Board were at lunch and could not be disturbed. When they finally did meet with them, assistance was refused. That day it rained and snowed and there was piercing wind. On the return journey to Lousiburgh, many perished."
Source
Louisburgh,
County Mayo, Ireland Famine Walk
"Every year a famine walk takes place, during the month of May, from Doolough to Louisburgh recalling the Irish Famine. This walk is often joined by one of the Indians from the Choctaw Nation."
Source
The Long March: the
Choctaws' gift to Irish famine relief , by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
1860 The famous Pony
Express, a reliable and speedy method of sending the mail in the Wild
West, opened in the United States, with a run (completed on April 13) between Saint Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California. Twenty-two
years to the day later, Jesse James was shot dead at St Joseph.
1865 American
Civil War: Union forces
captured Richmond,
Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate
States of America.
1868
Death of Franz Berwald, composer
(b. 1796)
1881 Australia’s first census revealed the population to be
approximately 2.5 million people.
 1882 Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA: American
Old West outlaw Jesse James (b.
1847 – though sources
differ)
was gunned
down with a single bullet to the back of the head by new James gang member, Bob
Ford.
It happened in St Joseph, Missouri, USA (on the 22nd
anniversary of the foundation of the famous Pony Express, the first run of which
was from that very town of St Joseph, to Sacramento, CA), while Jesse was hiding
out as ‘Thomas Howard’. Ford did it for the $10,000 (some say $5,000) bounty
on James’s head; James usually carried side-arms, but on this occasion he took
them off as he stood on a chair to straighten a picture of his favourite horse,
Skyrocket. Not that he had a chance, with his back turned to the turncoat
Ford.
Bob Ford never did get the reward for killing
Jesse James. Instead, he and his co-conspirator brother, Charlie, were convicted
of murder and sentenced to be hanged, though they were later pardoned by
Governor Tom Crittenden.
Ford had shot the famous outlaw in a cowardly
way, and was himself killed in a brawl in his own tent bar (pic) in
Creede, Colorado, in 1892. His headstone
says that he was born on December
8, 1841, but photos clearly show he was much
younger than 40 when he shot James.
The James-Younger Gang Jesse James family home More
Wikipedia
article
1882 Alfred Deakin (b.1856), later to be Australia’s second prime minister,
married Elizabeth Martha Anne (‘Pattie’)
Browne, daughter of wealthy Hugh Junor Browne, a prominent spiritualist.
“He was
prominent in the spiritualist movement, attending seances, testing phenomena,
arranging lectures and conducting the Progressive Lyceum, the spiritualist
Sunday school. In 1874 he edited and contributed to the Lyceum Leader and a
year later his small volume Quentin Massys; a drama in five acts appeared …
“On 3 April 1882 Deakin married 19-year-old Elizabeth Martha
Anne (‘Pattie’), daughter of wealthy Hugh Junor Browne, a prominent
spiritualist. The marriage, disapproved of by the Brownes, brought no material
benefit to the Deakins. They lived for a time with Deakin’s parents: in 1887
Llanarth, their house in Walsh Street, South Yarra, was completed. For the
rest of his active life, Deakin walked, bicycled or took the tram into the
city.” Source
1885 Gottlieb
Daimler was granted a German patent
for his engine
design.
1895 The libel
trial instigated by Oscar Wilde
against the Marquess
of Queensbury began, eventually resulting in Wilde's arrest,
trial and imprisonment on charges of homosexual
practices.
1897
Death of Johannes Brahms,
composer (b. 1833).
1901 Death of Richard
D'Oyly Carte, opera impresario (b. 1844).
1920 F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were evicted
from the Biltmore Hotel bridal suite, New York City, for rowdiness.
1922 Joseph Stalin
succeeded Vladimir Lenin
as leader of the Soviet Union.
1924 May Holman became the first female member of any Australian
parliament, in Western Australia.
1932
Death of Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist
(b. 1853).
1936 German-born carpenter, Bruno Hauptmann (b. 1899), went
to the electric chair for the kidnap
and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby son of world-famous pilots
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
and Charles
Lindbergh.
1941 Hungarian
and German
troops marched into Yugoslavia.
1942 World War II: Japanese
forces began an all-out assault on the United States
and Filipino troops
on the Bataan
Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and
the Bataan Death
March began.
1946 Japanese
Lt. General Masaharu Homma
was executed outside Manila in the Philippines
for leading the Bataan Death
March.
1948 US President
Harry Truman
signed the Marshall Plan
which authorized $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
The President used a dozen pens to complete his signature,
giving one to each of the witnesses as a souvenir of the occasion.
President Truman called the bill "perhaps the
greatest venture in constructive statemanship that any nation has
undertaken".
1953 USA: TV
Guide debuted.
1955 The American
Civil Liberties Union announced it would defend Allen Ginsberg's
book Howl
against obscenity charges.
 1968 A day
before being shot dead in his motel, Dr
Martin Luther King delivered his speech, “I've Been to the Mountaintop”
at the Memphis, Tennessee Masonic Temple.
“Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because
I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to
live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And
I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised
land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing
any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”
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1968 Elvis Presley
sang 'Heartbreak
Hotel' on the Milton Berle Show with an estimated 25 per cent of
the United States
population viewing.
1968 Simon and
Garfunkel released the critically acclaimed album Bookends.
1969 Vietnam
War: Vietnamization
– US Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird
announced that the United States
would start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1969 Jim Morrison of rock group The Doors was arrested by FBI in Los
Angeles on charges associated with his exposing himself at a Miami, Florida,
concert on March 1.
1973 The first
ever mobile phone
call was placed by Martin Cooper, in New York City.
1974 The Super
Outbreak occurred. One hundred and forty-eight tornadoes
affected 13 states and 1 Canadian province in 18 hours. It was the
biggest tornado outbreak in the planet's recorded
history. 315 people died, nearly 5,500 were injured.
1974 Patty Hearst
announced in a taped message to a Berkeley, CA, USA, radio station that she had
joined her kidnappers, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).
1975 Chess grand
master Bobby Fischer
refused to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov,
giving Karpov the title.
1978 After their five-month-4,200-mile-oceanic voyage,
Norwegian adventure Thor
Heyerdahl and his 10-man crew burned
their reed ship Tigris in protest against the wars raging in the
Middle East, and to “demand from the responsible decision makers that
modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle
axes and swords our ancestors condemned”.
Thor Heyerdahl Research Center Kon-Tiki Museum Bjornar
Storfjell’s account
Research, writings and a photograph
Thor Heyerdahl expeditions
His last project Jakten
på Odin (The Search for Odin)
Kon-Tiki by Heyerdahl Shop
Heyerdahl
1986 IBM
unveiled the PC Convertible,
its first laptop computer.
1990 American singer Sarah Vaughn,
66, died of lung cancer in Los Angeles.
1996 USA:
Suspected 'Unabomber' Theodore
Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.
1996 An Air Force air
transport carrying United
States Secretary of Commerce Ron
Brown crashed in Croatia, killing all
35 on board.
1997 The Thalit massacre
began in Algeria; all but one
of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit were killed by guerrillas.
2000 Terence McKenna joined the ancestors at 2:15 am USA
Pacific time. He went on his way in peace surrounded by loved ones. McKenna,
author, researcher and public speaker, formulated the controversial TimeWave
Zero theory that postulates that human culture will arrive at a critical nodal
point at around the time of the Northern Winter Solstice, 2012.
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2000 Microsoft
antitrust case: Microsoft was
ruled to have violated United States antitrust
laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2004 Islamist
terrorists
involved in the 11
March 2004 Madrid attacks were trapped by the police in their
apartment and killed themselves with explosives.
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