MARCH 29 — EMMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Swedish religious mystic, inspirer of utopianists worldwide.

March 29 Holidays/Festivals:
“BORROWED DAYS” begin. In calendar lore March is said to have stolen its last three days from April.
FESTIVAL OF SMOKE AND MIRRORS.

ALSO ON THIS DAY:
1772 — Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg dies, London, England.
1790 — Marquis de Sade freed by “demand of the people,” France.
1957 — British novelist Joyce Cary dies, Oxford, England.
1982 — Modernist composer Carl Orff dies, Munich, Germany.

All info courtesy The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective