From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   (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   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)