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Tag: The Chambers Book of Days

January 3, 2010

The Tenth Day of Christmas

From the Chambers’ Book of Days
ST. GENEVIÈVE

Sainte Geneviève, who has occupied, from the time of her death to the present day, the distinguished position of Patroness Saint of the city of Paris, lived in the fifth century, when Christianity, under corrupted forms, was contending with paganism for domination over the minds of rude and warlike races of men. Credible facts of this early period are few, obscure, and not easily separated from the fictions with which they have been combined; but the following principal events of the life of St. Geneviève may be taken as probably authentic: She was …Read the Rest

December 29, 2009

Saint Thomas a’ Becket

From the Chambers’ Book of Days
THOMAS BECKET

The career and fate of this celebrated ecclesiastic, form one of the most remarkable episodes …Read the Rest

December 27, 2009

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST’S DAY

From the Chambers’ Book of Days
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST’S DAY

A special reverence and interest is attached to St. …Read the Rest

Wednesday, February 11
February 11, 2009

Wednesday, February 11

Today is the last “official” day of winter!  Pitchers and catchers begin reporting tomorrow.  Our long winter nightmare is over.  In just a few short hours, the world will be beautiful again.  Baseball, with all its flaws, will be back!
The Pink Flamingo is going to go back to the old …Read the Rest