TODAY - June 3


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JUNE 3


New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 17 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 15 minutes – from 05.34 to 21.48.
See more – also in English – about where you are:  www.dagenslaengde.dk


TODAY’s NAME:
This day is called ERASMUS’ DAY. He was a bishop in the Greek city of Antiochia in the Middle East during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Due to the emperor’s terrible persecutions of the Christians Erasmus took refuge in the mountains in Lebanon and lived here as an eremit. Later he went back to his city and continued to convert people to his faith and also to cure the sick persons. He died a natural death around year 300 AC.



In the Middle Ages a legend about Erasmus became very popular. It told that he had been terribly tortured at least three times. Once he had all his intestines taken out. At another occasion he was put into a pot with boiling tar and sulphur. But in all cases he came out unhurt due to his faith.



Due to this legend people believed that Erasmus in particular would help persons with stomach deceases. And he is also often presented next to a pot on pictures from that time.



In Belgium the day’s name is SAINTE BLANDINE – a young French Christian girl, who was killed by the Romans in Lyon. She lived in the years 162-77.  She is the patron for people who falsely was accused of cannibalism, of maids, and of victims of torture.



TODAY’s EVENT:
1965:  The US astronaut Edward White is the first man to make a space walk.



TODAY’s QUESTION:
Black sheep – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?

In the old days a legend said that it would bring bad luck to have one or more black sheep in the flock. The reason was that you were paid less for black wool than for white wool.
Today you talk about the family’s black sheep, when you think of a member of the family, who differs from the rest of the family in a negative way. It might be in behavior or in intelligence. In other words: it isn’t meant positively, when somebody is described as a black sheep.



QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:
Like a cat round hot milk – where does that come from? And it means?



47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK     www.europe-at-work.be



TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.  Yesterday’s quote:


        In order to understand a good poem you have to be able to write a bad one  
             yourself.

             This was once said by the Danish poet Tom Kristensen.

2.  Today’s quote:


I think we have to read books, which hurt and perforate us… A book has to be the axe to the frozen lake inside us.


Who among today’s persons has said that?


3.  Famous people born on this day:


1808:  Jefferson Davis  ( died 1889 )

1906:  Josephine Baker  ( died 1975 )

1925:  Tony Curtis    ( died 2010 )



4.  Famous people died on this day:


1764:  Hans Adolph Brorson  ( 70 years )

1875:  Georges Bizet  ( 37 years )

1924:  Franz Kafka  ( 41 years )

2001:  Anthony Quinn ( 86 years )



Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

www.simplesite.com/kimbrer   +  EUROPE-AT-WORK   www.europe-at-work.be 

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