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NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 31 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 12 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 9 minutes – from 05.36 to 21.45. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today is called PETRONELLA’s DAY . She was a daughter of the apostle Peter – or at least his spiritual daughter. She had promised never to marry. When a very rich and well regarded Roman gentleman suggested to her that they should marry she asked for three weeks to reflect upon it. After she had enjoyed the Holy Communion she starved herself to death. It happened in the year 100 AC. In Belgium the day this year is called PENTECÔTE -  Whitsun. TODAY’s EVENT: 1915:  Zeppelins are making some of the first bombardments of London. 28 people were killed and 60 wounded.  One of the main German Zeppelin bases was near Tønder ...

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 30 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 10 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 8 minutes – from 05.37 to 21.44. See more – also in English – about where you are:  www.dagenslanegde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called VIGAND’s DAY . He was also called the holy Venantius of Arles ( in the south of France ). In his younger days he tried to convince his brother that he should give up his Christian faith. Instead he became himself a convinced Christian and lived as such for the rest of his life. At the end Vigand was killed in 370 AC because of his faith. In Belgium the day’s name is SAINTE JEANNE – aften a French nun, who founded the Virgin Mary nuns’ Order for women, who had been rejected by other orders due to health and age.  She lived in the years 1572-1641. TODAY’s EVENT: 1431:  19 year old Jeanne d’Arc was burnt on the bonfire by ...

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 29 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 10 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 7 minutes – from 05.37 to 21.44. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called MAXIMINUS’ DAY . It has its name from bishop Maximus in Trier , Germany. He functioned in the period 330 – 352 AC. The legend tells that during one of his trips to Rome his donkey was eaten by a bear. He then put the saddle on the back of the bear, and it carried him the rest of the journey. Maximinus died in 352 after a visit to Constantinopel . Here he had tried to reconcile the Eastern and the Western churches. The day’s name in Belgium is the same:   SAINT MAXIMIEN. TODAY’s EVENT: 862:  The Viking chief Rurik ( probably a Dane from Hedeby / Hauthabu ) is founding the first Russian state in Novgorod. TODAY’s QUESTION: ...

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 28 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 8 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 5 minutes – from 05.38 to 21.43. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called VILHELM’S DAY .  It has its name from Vilhelm ( in French: Guillaume ), who was duke of Gascogne . He was one of Charlemagne ’s closest allies, and they were fighting together against the Moors in Spain . Later he became a very religious man, and he founded a monastery. According to the legend he even became so religious that he was able to walk into a red-hot oven with getting harmed. And when he died in 812 AC the bells in his monastery started ringing all by themselves. In Belgium the day is called SAINT GERMAIN – after a bishop in Paris. He lived in the years 496-576 and founded the monestary Saint Germain des Prés. TODA...

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 27 New edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 7 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 3 minutes – from 05.39 to 21.42. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called LUCIAN’s DAY . He was a Christian who together with others of the same faith was killed in year 200 AC in the town Tomis at the Black Sea.  Tomis was placed where the Romanian city of Constanta is today. In Belgium the day is called SAINT AUGUSTIN – after a bishop in North Africa ( Alegeria ), who lived in the years 354-430. TODAY’s EVENT: 1703:  The city Saint Petersburg in Russia is founded by zar Peter the Great. TODAY’s QUESTION: Feather in one’s cap – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean? Feathers have in history always played a very important symbolic role.  ...