[Sca-cooks] January 4th Holiday Exchange

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

Whoops, let yesterday slip by me - here it is now...
Christianna

JAN 4
Fourth Day of the New Year - Japan

Secret of Silkmaking Reaches the West (536) Sent by the Emperor Justinian,
two monks traveled to China and Ceylon and stole two silk worms, smuggling
them out in the hollow top of a walking stick.

St. Pharaildis' Feast Day - Patron saint of the city of Ghent; Invoked
against Childhood Illness. This Flemish maiden caused a miraculous fountain
to spring forth at Braug, where it is to this day, the waters of which are
miraculously effective against childhood diseases.  She is pictured with a
goose, in honor of a miracle she performed at a feast, restoring a roasted
goose to life in it's original plumage.

Jacob Grimm (b. 1785) First to write down fairy tales from Germany