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  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 26 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 1 minute longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 59 minutes – from 05.41 to 21.39. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is called BEDA’s DAY   ( or BEDE’s DAY ). He was a monk and priest, who worked in England around 700 AC.   He was born in 672 in Northumbria . Already at the age of 7 he started at a monastery. Later he was also an author and a poet of psalms. And it was him who suggested that our calendar should start with the birth of Jesus. It was also Beda, who wrote a lot about religion in England before Christianity. A special expression comes from Beda: to pour oil on stormy waters .   This was what he suggested a young priest to do, when a storm was about to start. Beda died in 735 – 53 years of age. In Belgium the day’s name is SAINT PHILIPPE NÉRI...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 25 New 2021 version TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 59 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 56 minutes – from 05.42 to 21.38. See – also in English – information about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today is called URBANUS’ DAY . It has its name after pope Urbanus , who worked in the years 220-230. He was killed because of his belief in 230. He had together with other Christians been hiding in the catacombs in Rome . When he was arrested he did not want to give up his faith. That is why he was tortured and at the end beheaded. In Belgium the day is called SAINT BÈDE – after an English monk living in the years 672 to 735.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1901: Norway introduces as the first country in Europe voting right for women .   TODAY’s QUESTION: Money is the root of all evil – where does that expression come from? And means? This...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 24 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 56 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 54 minutes – from 05.43 to 21.37. See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today’s name is ESTHER’s DAY .  It has its name from the Jewish girl Esther, who married the Persian king Xerxes . According to the Old Testament she did so to save the Jews from the persecutions of the Persians. In Belgium the day’s name is:  SAINTS DONATIEN ET ROGATIEN .  They were two Christian brothers in Nantes in France, who were killed in 304.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1976:  The Concorde plane is making its first flight from London/Paris to Washington DC.   TODAY’s QUESTION: Silence is gold – where does that expression come from? And it means? This expression goes all the way back to Ancient Egypt . It later appe...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 23 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 54 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 52 minutes – from 05.44 to 21.35. See – also in English – how it is where you are:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: Today is called DESIDERIUS’ DAY .   It has its name after two different French bishops with the same name. They were both executed.   The first one was a bishop in Viennes in the south of France. He was killed in 364 AC. The other one was a bishop in Langres in the Champagne area. He was stoned to death at the order of queen Brunhilde, because he had critisized her immoral life. It happened in 607 AC. In Belgium the day is called SAINT GILBERT – after an English nobleman, who founded the Order of the Gilbertines.   He was of Norman origin like William the Conqueror and lived in the years 1085-1189.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1949:   The F...

  NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS ON: MAY 22 New 2021 edition TODAY’s LENGTH: This day is here in Belgium 7 hours and 51 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 15 hours and 49 minutes – from 05.45 to 21.34. See more – also in English – about where you are on:   www.dagenslaengde.dk TODAY’s NAME: This day is CASTUS’ DAY .   He was a young Roman from Carthage . He was like his friend Aemilius a Christian. Therefore, they were both imprisoned during emperor Decius ’ persecution of all Christians. In the beginning they denied their faith. But when they later admitted their religion they were burnt alive in Carthago in the year 250 AC. Today is the United Nations’ international day for biological diversity . In Belgium the day is called SAINTE RITA DE CASCIA – from an Italian nun living in the years 1381-1457.   TODAY’s EVENT: 1892:   The American dentist Washinton Sheffield invented the tube for tooth paste. Until now tooth paste had ...