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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: March Catch-up
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:19:48 +1300
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(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 Ġużepp)
     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 Juárez 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