TODAY

February 22, 2021

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: FEBRUARY 22

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is in Belgium 2 hours and 32 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 10 hours and 30 minutes – from 07.41 to 18.11.

See more – also in English – about where you are on: www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called PETER’s DAY or PETER’s CHAIR. This was the day when the close friend of Jesus, the fisherman Simon, named Peter by Jesus, started his job as bishop in Antiochia ( in the southeastern part of today’s Turkey, near the Syrian border and in the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean ). He was a bishop here for 7 years. While he was here he made a boy who had been dead for 14 years alive again. As a consequence the Roman prefect and many more became Christians. They built a church and made a big chair for Peter in the middle. That’s why it is called Peter’s Chair as well as Peter’s Day.

The Catholic church has celebrated Peter’s Chair – the Chair of the Pope – since the 4^th century. One it the purposes was to push an old non-Christian celebration on this day out. After the job in Antiochia Peter became the first bishop in Rome and thereby the first pope. Today’s pope is still also bishop of Rome.

In Belgium this day is called SAINTE ISABELLE – after a royal lady, who founded a monastery for nuns in Longchamp west of Paris. She lived in the years 1225-70.

TODAY’s EVENT:

1969: The Beatles are playing as a group for the last time.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

The early bird catches the worm – where does that come from? And what does it mean?

This expression is first recorded in John Ray’s A Collection of English Proverbs 1670. It is at the time quoted like that: The early bird catcheth the worm.

It means – then and now – that success comes to those, who prepare well and put an effort.

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Money is the root to all evil - what’s the origin of this expression? And it means what?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

EUROPE AT WORK www.europe-at-work.be

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1. Yesterday’s quote:

Love never dies a natural death. It dies, because we do not know how to supply its sources, it dies from blindness and mistakes and treason. It dies from illness and wounds, it dies from fatique. It languishes, it gets tarnished. But it never dies a natural death. Anybody could be accused of murdering his own love.

This was said by the French author Anaïs Nin.

2. Today’s quote:

Diplomats would not be diplomats, if they did not see it an an honour to make simple things complicated, and first and foremost being it a noble art todelay any important initiative.

Who has said that?

3. Famous people born on this day:

1732: George Washington ( died 1799 )

1788: Arthur Schopenhauer ( died 1860 )

1810: Frédéric Chopin ( died 1849 )

1857: Robert Baden-Powell ( died 1941 )

1932: Edward Kennedy ( died 2009 )

1943: Horst Köhler

1969: Brian Laudrup

4. Famous people died on this day:

1512: Amerigo Vespucci ( 58 years )

1797: Baron von Münchhausen ( 77 years ) – see photo below.