28 March 12023

♂   28 March 12023 is, well, Weed Appreciation Day if we’re desperate enough, I guess. It’s Teachers’ Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia) and Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet). On various calendars of the world it’s JD 24600032 (Astronomical), 15 (O.S.) or 28 (N.S.) March 2023 (Christian), 19 Paremhat 1739 (Coptic), 19 Megabit 2015 (Ethiopian), 8 Caitra 1945 (Indian), 10 Farvardin 1402 (Iranian), 7 Ramadan 1444 (Islamic), and 7 Nisan 5783 (Jewish). I hope we’re all keeping up together here. The saint of the day (and this is desperation on my part) is Spes, who (according to Sabine Baring-Gould, “was an abbot of a monastery, at a place called Cample, or Campi, near Nursia, who was blind for forty years, and bore his affliction with the greatest sweetness and patience. At the end of that time his sight was restored to him for a brief space, and he occupied this time in visiting the monasteries of his order. And on the fifteenth day of his recovery he returned to his own house, and calling the brethren together, and standing in their midst, he received the Body and Blood of Christ, and then lifted up his voice to precent the psalms. And as he and the brethren sang, his spirit fled, and the brethren saw his blessed soul as a white dove soar up to the vault of the church, which parted, and the dove ascended into the brightness above.”