[Sca-cooks] January 3rd Holiday Exchange

[Anne]

Thank you for taking the time to post this information for us all --
I, for one, find it very interesting.  Your effort is much
appreciated!

Juliane Rose


On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:52:35 -0500, kingstaste at mindspring.com
<kingstaste at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
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