[Sca-cooks] January 3rd Holiday Exchange

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JAN 3
Festival of Pax - Ancient Rome - Goddess of Peace.  Her temple was open
during times of peace, but closed during times of war.  It stayed open for
200 years during the Pax Romana, an un-interrupted time of peace.

Third Day of the New Year - Japan - Marks the renewal of Court functions.

St. Genevieve's Feast Day (500 AD) Patron St. of Paris; Invoked against
drought, fever, floods, and plague. She defended the city from Atilla and
the Huns in 451 AD with her prayers, and personally ran the blockade and
returned with boatloads of wheat to feed the starving Parisians. Her relics
have been disinterred and paraded through the streets during a plague in
1129, (the plague stopped) and again during a flood in 1206 (the river
receded).

Martin Luther Excommunicated (1521)

J.R.R. Tolkien (b. 1892) Author of the "Lord of the Rings" series