TODAY - March 13

 

NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: MARCH 13

New 2021 edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is in Belgium 3 hours and 47 minutes longer than December 21.  Its length is 11 hours and 43 minutes – from 07.01 to 18.45.

See more – also in English – on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called MACEDONIUS DAY.  He was a bishop in Constantinople in the middle of the 4th century. He was condemned to death, because he overturned a non- Christian idol statue in a temple. He was very tough. While he was placed on the grill over open fire he asked to be turned around so that he could also be grilled on the other side.

In the church he held the heretical point of view that the Holy Spirit cannot be viewed at the same level as the Father and the Son.

In Belgium the day is called SAINT RODRIQUE – after a Spanish saint in Cordoba in the 9th century.  He refused to be a Muslim soldier, because he was a Christian.  Then he was killed.

 

TODAY’s EVENT:

1991: The Peoples’ Congress of the Soviet Union decides that the one-party system is abolished.

 

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Noah’s Ark – What is the background of that expression?

This is from Noah in The old Testament. He was the constructor of the ARK, which he used to rescue his family, two pairs of all animals and a vine J from the Flood.

Historically it is likely that the Flood actually happened in pre-historic times, when the Mediterranean Sea broke though the Bosphorus into the Black Sea. The Mediterranean was until then about 8 meters higher, so it is evident that the break-through was an enormous disaster. The legend tells that Noah landed his Ark on the mountain Ararat. It lies at the eastern side of the present day Black Sea.

 

QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

The Neandertal Men -  What is the background and the history?

47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:

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

 

TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

What a Christian is doing is his own matter. What a Jew is doing falls back on all Jews.

            This was said by the Jewish girl Anne Frank, who died 16 year old in the

            German concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

2.  Today’s quote:

Import is good, because this is something you get. Export is bad, because this is something you lose.

Who of today’s persons has said that?

3.  Famous people born on this day:

1860:  Hugo Wolf  ( died 1903 )

1884:  Hugh Walpole  ( died 1941 )

1895:  Viggo Starcke  ( died 1974 )

1939:  Neil Sedaka

 

4.  Famous people died on this day:

1808:  King Christian VII  ( 59 years )

1838:  Søren Kierkegaard  ( 43 years )  - see photo below.

1881:  Zar Alexander II  ( 63 years )

1979:  Per Hækkerup  ( 64 years )

1996:  Krzysztof Kieslowski  ( 55 years )

 

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

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


                                                            Søren Kierkegaard

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