Saint of the Day for Friday, May 1st, 2015 , St. Marculf

Saint of the Day for Friday, May 1st, 2015

St. Marculf

Marculf is also known as Marcoul. He was born at Bayeux, Gaul, at noble parents. He was ordained when he was thirty, and did missionary work at Coutances. Desirous of living as a hermit, he was … continue reading

More Saints of the Day

St. Marculf St. Aceolus St. Acius St. Aldebrandus St. Amator St. Andeolus St. Arigius St. Asaph St. Augustus Schoffler St. Benedict of Szkalka St. Bertha of Kent St. Bertha of Val d’Or St. Brieuc St. Buriana

St. Ceallach St. Cominus St. Evermarus St. Grata St. Isidora St. Isidora the Simple St. John-Louis Bonnard St. Orentius St. Orentius and Patientia St. Panacea St. Peregrine Laziosi St. Riccardo Pampuri St. Theodard St. Ultan

today’s holiday: The Game of St. Evermaire

The Game of St. Evermaire

The Spel van Sint Evermarus, or the Game of St. Evermaire, is a dramatic reenactment of the slaying of eight pilgrims in Rousson (Rutten), Belgium, on their way to the Holy Land in 699. This event is portrayed by the townspeople of Rousson each year on the first day of May in the meadow near the Chapel of St. Evermaire. Following a procession around the casket believed to contain the saint’s bones, costumed villagers representing St. Evermaire and his companions are attacked by 50 “brigands” led by Hacco, the legendary assailant. By the end of the drama, the saint and the seven pilgrims lie dead. More… Discuss

quotation: Charlotte Bronte

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) Discuss

today’s birthday: Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)

Considered one of the founders of neuroscience, Ramón y Cajal was a Spanish histologist and Nobel laureate. He devised a method of staining nerve tissue that allowed him to study the structure of the nervous system and make many important discoveries. In 1906, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi. Though he was a highly respected researcher in his adult years, he often got into trouble as a child and was imprisoned at the age of 11 for doing what? More… Discuss

this day in the yesteryear: Penny Black Is Issued in the UK (1840)

Penny Black Is Issued in the UK (1840)

Before the issuance of the Penny Black—the first adhesive stamp to indicate prepayment of postage—letters were commonly paid for by their recipients. Part of an effort to reform the antiquated British postal system, the stamp featured a profile of Queen Victoria. Because its dark background made cancellation marks hard to see and made reusing stamps quite easy, it was soon redesigned. To this day, all British stamps bear a profile of the reigning monarch and are the only stamps not to list what? More… Discuss

Sunflowers

The sunflower is a plant native to the New World and common throughout the US. Its stem can grow up to 10 ft (3 m) tall, and its flower head, commonly having yellow rays, can reach 1 ft (30 cm) in diameter. The sunflower was domesticated around 1000 BCE in the Americas, where the Incas venerated it as an image of their sun god, and it reached Europe in the 16th century. It is valued today for its oil-bearing seeds that can be made into bread. The sunflower is the state flower of what US state? More… Discuss

word: balustrade

 

A page of fanciful balusters from A Handbook of Ornament, Franz S. Meyer, 1898 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

balustrade

 

Definition:	(noun) A rail and the row of balusters or posts that support it, as along the front of a gallery.
Synonyms:	banister, handrail
Usage:	She leaned over the balustrade, trying to see what was happening below. Discuss.

 

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