WEDNESDAY, MAY 7
Big Mac is taking Manhattan tonight to raise $7 million! I HOPE! If he did not have my vote, he would with this!
Nothing is more annoying than either a paper cut or a head cold. I have the latter. I had no sleep at all last night. I know one thing, I've proven that Air-Bourn really works. I quit using it about a month ago. This is the first cold /flu I've had in at least 2 years. I've been using the product religiously during that time.
Sally Vee is pinch hitting tonight with a very chilling expose on Barack Obama's little friend Bill Ayers and his little friend Hugo Chavez.
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Campaign for a Media in Yemen - is very personal for blog owner Jane. She is close friends with one of the journalists involved.
By now most of my regular readers know I take part in “Thursday Thirteen” which is a shameless way for a link-whore like moi to accumulate even more links and hits. Anyway – one of the posts today comes from Around the Island a blog out of Israel. Today Robin has created a very moving montage of photos taken around her neighborhood. It is all about Israel’s 60th Independence Day – which is tomorrow. She says she has never seen so many flags. She gives us a completely different view of Israel, an everyday picture of a normal life.
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THE CHAMBERS BOOK OF DAYS
Born: Gerard Van Swieten, physician, 1700, Leyden.
Died: Otho the Great, emperor, 973, Magdeburg; Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus), French historian, 1617; John Gwillim, herald, 1621; Patrick Delany, D.D., miscellaneous writer, 1768, Bath; William, Marquis of Lansdowne, 1805; Richard Cumberland, English dramatist, 1811; H. W. Banbury, amateur artist, 1811: Thomas Barnes, editor of the Times, 1841, London.
Feast Day: St. Benedict II, Pope, confessor, 686. St. John of Beverley, 721. St. Stanislaus, Bishop of Cracow, martyr, 1079.
JOHN OF BEVERLEYDied: Otho the Great, emperor, 973, Magdeburg; Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus), French historian, 1617; John Gwillim, herald, 1621; Patrick Delany, D.D., miscellaneous writer, 1768, Bath; William, Marquis of Lansdowne, 1805; Richard Cumberland, English dramatist, 1811; H. W. Banbury, amateur artist, 1811: Thomas Barnes, editor of the Times, 1841, London.
Feast Day: St. Benedict II, Pope, confessor, 686. St. John of Beverley, 721. St. Stanislaus, Bishop of Cracow, martyr, 1079.
Most of the early Anglo-Saxon saints were men and women of princely, or at least of noble birth; and such. was the case with John of Beverley, who is commemorated on this day. He was born at Harpham, near Driffield, which latter place was apparently a favourite residence of the Northumbrian kings; and he was therefore a Yorkshireman. As was not very common among the Anglo-Saxons, he received a scriptural instead of an Anglo-Saxon name; and he was evidently intended for the church from his infancy, for we are told that when a boy his education was entrusted to the Abbess Hilda, and he afterwards went to Canterbury, and pursued his studies under Theodore the Great, who may be looked upon as the father of the Anglo-Saxon schools. On leaving Theodore, John set up as a teacher himself, and opened a school in his native district, in which his learning drew together a number of scholars, among whom was the historian Bede. About the year 685, John was made bishop of Hexham, one of the sees into which the then large diocese of York had been divided during the exile of Wilfred; but on Wilfred's return the see of York was restored to its former condition, and John resigned his bishopric, and retired into comparatively private life. Not long afterwards Hexham was again formed into a separate bishopric, and restored to John, who was removed thence to be made Archbishop of York, in the year 705.
From the account of this prelate given by his disciple Bede, it is evident that he was a man of learning, and of great piety, and that he exercised considerable influence over the Northumbrian church in his time; yet he was evidently not ambitious of public life, but preferred solitude and contemplation. Hence, both as bishop and archbishop, he selected places of retirement, where he could enjoy temporary seclusion from the world. With this view, he built a small monastic cell in an open place in the heart of the forest of the Deiri, which was so far removed from the haunts of men that its little stream was the resort of beavers, from which circumstance it was called in Anglo-Saxon Beofor-leag, or the lea of beavers, which, in the change of language, has been smoothed down into Beverley. From this circumstance, the Archbishop of York became known by the name of John of Beverley, which has distinguished him ever since. In 718, when he felt old age creeping upon him, John resigned his archbishopric, and retired to the solitude of Beverley, where he spent the remainder of his days. He died on the 7th of May 721. It is hardly necessary to add, that John's cell in the forest soon became a celebrated monastery, and that the flourishing town of Beverley gradually arose adjacent to it. Hither, during Roman Catholic times, numerous pilgrims resorted to the shrine of the saint, where great miracles and wonderful cures of diseases were believed to be performed; and his memory was held in such reverence, and his power as a saint supposed to be so great, that 'St John' became the usual war cry of the English of the North in their wars with the Scots.
From the account of this prelate given by his disciple Bede, it is evident that he was a man of learning, and of great piety, and that he exercised considerable influence over the Northumbrian church in his time; yet he was evidently not ambitious of public life, but preferred solitude and contemplation. Hence, both as bishop and archbishop, he selected places of retirement, where he could enjoy temporary seclusion from the world. With this view, he built a small monastic cell in an open place in the heart of the forest of the Deiri, which was so far removed from the haunts of men that its little stream was the resort of beavers, from which circumstance it was called in Anglo-Saxon Beofor-leag, or the lea of beavers, which, in the change of language, has been smoothed down into Beverley. From this circumstance, the Archbishop of York became known by the name of John of Beverley, which has distinguished him ever since. In 718, when he felt old age creeping upon him, John resigned his archbishopric, and retired to the solitude of Beverley, where he spent the remainder of his days. He died on the 7th of May 721. It is hardly necessary to add, that John's cell in the forest soon became a celebrated monastery, and that the flourishing town of Beverley gradually arose adjacent to it. Hither, during Roman Catholic times, numerous pilgrims resorted to the shrine of the saint, where great miracles and wonderful cures of diseases were believed to be performed; and his memory was held in such reverence, and his power as a saint supposed to be so great, that 'St John' became the usual war cry of the English of the North in their wars with the Scots.
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