From Newsgroup: sci.lang
(not crossposting! just got confused and put this on a.u.e. first)
It's been a busy time and we've passed through a lot of holidays without comment.
Saints: Patrick (Ireland) 17 March -- celebrated wherever there are
Irish people
Joseph (Malta) 19 March (San -au++epp)
This was on my original list, but this list suggests it is only a
public holiday in Rabat, a town in western Malta, not the whole country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Malta#March
On the way to finding that out, I ran across the question: Why are there
two feasts of St Joseph on the liturgical calendar? (Yes, this is the
same guy, husband of Mary and "legal father" of Jesus.) Well, 19 March
is the original one, celebrating the Family Man. But in 1955 Pope Pius
XII proclaimed 1 May as the feast of St.Joseph the Worker. This was
obviously so that Catholics could get out and celebrate May Day along
with the Communists.
Other notable individuals:
Benito Ju|irez Day (Mexico) 17 March.
(More Mondayization -- he was actually born on the 21st, but it's now
"third Monday in March").
A great Mexican. President 1856-1872. "A Zapotec, he was the first
Indigenous president of Mexico and the first democratically elected
Indigenous president in the postcolonial Americas." I did not know
that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Ju%C3%A1rez.
More to follow
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