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 Feast day of Blessed
Charlemagne, emperor
Charlemagne (c. April
2, 747
- January 28, 814) or
Charles the Great, in German Karl der Große, in Latin
Carolus Magnus, was king of the Franks
from 771
to 814,
nominally King of the Lombards,
and Holy Roman Emperor.
Up
until the mid-20th Century, Charlemagne's birthday was believed to
be April 2, 742,
but several
factors led to reconsideration of this traditional date.
Charles, son of Pepin the Short,
was anointed with his father and his brother Carloman
by Pope Stephen
II in 754 and crowned first Holy Roman
Emperor, sovereign of Christendom in the West, by Pope
Leo III on Christmas Day, 800.
He was beatified by Pope
Benedict XIV
(cultus confirmed) and
his feast day is January 28.
More below, This Day in History, 814
 Runic
half-month of Elhaz commences
This half month: optimistic power, protection and sanctuary.
Nigel
Pennick, The
Pagan Book of Days, Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont,
USA, 1992, p. 35
Feast
day of St Amadeus of
Lausanne
Feast
day of St Callinicus
Feast
day of St Cannera of
Inis Cathaig
Feast
day of St Flavian of
Civita Vecchia
Feast
day of St Giles of
Lorenzana
Feast
day of St Glastian of
Kinglassie, Scotland
Feast
day of St James the
Almsgiver
Feast
day of St James the
Hermit
Feast
day of St John the Sage
Feast
day of St Joseph
Freinademetz
Feast
day of St Leucius
Feast
day of the Martyrs of Alexandria
Feast day of Blessed Margaret, princess
of Hungary
(Double daisy,
Bellis perennis
plenus, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Feast day of
Blessed Mary of Pisa, widow
Feast
day of St Odo of
Beauvais
Feast
day of St Paulinus of
Aquileia, patriarch
Feast
day of St Peter
Nolasco (Pedro Nolasco)
He was appointed tutor to the young king,
James of Aragon
(1208
-
1276).
In 1218, he formed a congregation of men that became the
Royal and Military Order of Our Lady of Mercy of the Redemption of
the Captives with approval by Pope
Gregory IX in 1230.
The Virgin Mary and a host of holy virgins appeared to him on
August 1,
1216 and said that it was the divine pleasure that he institute a new
order under the title of
Our Blessed Lady of Mercy. King
James of Aragon
(1208
-
'76)
had the same vision at precisely the same time. Or, so it is said. With
the reform of the general Roman calendar in 1969, the feast of St
Peter Nolasco on
January 31
was suppressed; he is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology and in
local and particular liturgical calendars on January 28.
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Feast
day of St Roger of
Todi
Feast day of St
Thomas Aquinas,
Doctor of the Church and Confessor
Saint
Thomas Aquinas (1225 - '74)
was a Catholic philosopher
and theologian in the scholastic tradition, who gave birth to
the Thomistic
school of philosophy, which was long the official dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. He is
considered by the Catholic church to be its greatest theologian and
one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church.
His patronage includes academics, against storms, against lightning,
apologists, book sellers, Catholic academies, Catholic schools, Catholic universities, chastity, colleges, learning, lightning,
pencil makers, philosophers, publishers, scholars, schools, storms, students, theologians, universities, University of Vigo.
"One of the most famous stories
in religious history is that after having written the Summa
Theologica, a compendium of all human knowledge up to that time,
St. Thomas went into a kind of trace one day at Mass. When asked
what he had seen, he said no human words could tell."
Source
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more
Feast day of St
Thyrsus
Several churches in Spain are dedicated to this saint. In
777, the
Queen of Oviedo and
Asturias presented one of these churches with a
silver chalice and paten, a wash-hand basin and a silver pipe, or
quill to suck up the blood of
Jesus Christ at the Communion. His feast day
is co-celebrated with Leucius and Callinicus, as the three were martyred at
Apollonia (Sozopolis),
Phrygia. Their relics were brought to
Constantinople,
then to Spain and France.
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Dakini Day,
Tibet (Source unknown)
Shiwasu
Matsuri, Mikado Jinja, Nango, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan (Jan 20 - Feb 20)
Winter-een-mas
(Jan 25
- 31)
Fourth day: Ted is sized up for the
annual penguin roast. Ethan
preaches at the mall, assaulting unbelievers with his sceptre. Celebrated
Ghosts: Fighting Games,
Real Time
Strategy.
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1457
King
Henry
VII of England (d. April 21, 1509),
founder of the Tudor
dynasty
1600 Pope Clement IX
(d. 1669)
Baskerville
font: simplicity, elegance, clarity.
 1706 John Baskerville (d. 1775), English
printer and typefounder
whose fonts (including the famous 'Baskerville', above) were so successful, his competitors claimed they damaged
the eyes.
His masterpiece was a folio Bible,
published in 1763. Among Baskerville's publications held in the
British Museum are that Bible, Aesop's Fables (1761),
and the works of
Horace (1770).
A native of Worcestershire, Baskerville
made a fortune in a japanning
business in Birmingham. He devoted his resources to the art of
printing and development of typefaces, was said to be a great
perfectionist and made his own ink, presses, moulds for casting, and
all the apparatus.
Baskerville enjoyed a lasting friendship with Benjamin
Franklin, who had built up a successful printing business in
Philadelphia, and who visited Baskerville in Birmingham.
"His typography is extremely
beautiful, uniting the elegance of Plantin
with the clearness of the Elzevirs; in his Italic letters he stands
unrivalled," wrote one commentator.
He was a man of eccentric tastes: he had
each panel of his carriage painted with a picture of one of his
trades. John Baskerville was buried in his own garden; in 1821 his
remains were accidentally disturbed, the leaden coffin was opened
and his body and shroud were in a nearly perfect state of
preservation.
People were actually
charged sixpence for a look at the wonder. Baskerville was an
atheist and wished not to be interred in a churchyard. His body had
several moves before it found its final resting place. As Deborah
Cooper writes in John
Baskerville: A man with a mission:
Just as his typeface is now
recognized as one of the greatest ever designed, so his body is
more or less where he would want it, in a place where there is no
church. Perhaps he would have been happy about this as it proves
that if you keep persevering, you will eventually get what you
want. This was John Baskerville to the letter.
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1784 George
Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen (d. 1860), Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom1791
Admiral Sir James
Stirling (d. April
23, 1865),
the first Governor
of Western
Australia (1828
- 38)
and on his own initiative the one who signed Britain's first limited
treaty
with Japan in 1854
1822 Alexander
Mackenzie (d. 1892),
2nd Prime
Minister of Canada 1833 Charles
George Gordon (Chinese Gordon; d. 1885), British soldier and administrator
1834
Rev. Sabine
Baring-Gould (d. January
2, 1924)
English Victorian churchman, folklorist, hagiographer,
antiquarian,
novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists over 500
separate publications. His family home in Devon,
Lewtrenchard
Manor, has been successfully preserved as he rebuilt it and is
today a hotel. He is particularly remembered as a writer of hymns,
the best-known being 'Onward, Christian Soldiers'
(music by Sir
Arthur
Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan fame).
He regarded as his principal achievement
the collection of folk
songs that he made with the help of the ordinary people of Devon
and Cornwall.
Baring-Gould wrote many novels, a collection of ghost stories, a
16-volume Lives of the Saints, and the biography of the
eccentric poet-vicar of Morwenstow,
Robert
Stephen Hawker. His folkloric studies resulted in The Book of
Were-Wolves (1865), one of the most frequently cited studies of lycanthropy.
Half-way through, the topic changes to crimes only vaguely connected
to werewolves, including grave desecration and cannibalism.
Stories of his own eccentricity have been exaggerated. He did once,
while teaching at Hurstpierpoint,
have his pet bat
on his shoulder.
While a curate in Horbury
in Yorkshire,
Baring-Gould met a 16-year-old mill girl named Grace Taylor. He sent her away to
be educated, and then married her in 1868. The couple had 15
children.
Works
by Sabine Baring-Gould at Project
Gutenberg
Biography
from Devon Discovering Devon by the BBC
Home
page of an on-line edition of Baring-Gould's novel The Frobishers
at Literary Heritage
1853 José Martí
(d. 1895),
revolutionary 1857 William
Seward Burroughs, inventor of the calculator (d. 1898);
grandfather of his namesake (b.
1915), author of Junkie
and The Naked Lunch
1873
(Gabrielle) Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette;
d. 1954),
French novelist. She was born in the French village
of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Her
career began by her ghostwriting stories for her author-husband
'Willy' who locked her in a room until she finished each
assignment.
1879 Francis Picabia
(d. 1953),
painter, poet1884 Auguste Piccard
(d. 1962),
physicist 1887 Artur
Rubinstein (d. 1982), Polish pianist, conductor 1892 Ernst Lubitsch (d. 1947), German-born film
director (Heaven Can Wait;
Ninotchka)
1912 Jackson Pollock
(d. 1956),
American
Abstract-Expressionist painter, initiator of dripping painting 1927 Hiroshi
Teshigahara (d. 2001), director 1929 Claes
Oldenbourg, artist
1929 Acker
Bilk, British musician
1935 David Lodge,
author
1936 Alan
Alda (born Alphonso D'Abruzzo), American actor, writer
and director.
He commuted from LA to his home in New Jersey every weekend for 11
years while starring as Hawkeye Pearce in
M*A*S*H, which he
codirected with Hi Averback. His wife and
daughters lived in NJ, and he did not want to uproot the family to
LA, especially because he did not know how long the show would
last.
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1945
Marthe Keller, Swiss
actress1948
Mikhail
Baryshnikov (Михаил
Николаевич
Баришников,
also transliterated
as Baryshinikov or Barishinikov), Latvian
dancer, choreographer,
and actor. While
starring with the Kirov
Ballet, he defected to Canada in 1974, joining the American
Ballet Theatre.
Baryshnikov
received an Oscar nomination for his film debut
as Yuril in
The
Turning
Point. He played a defecting Soviet ballet star
in White Nights. In 1989 he made his Broadway
debut acting in Metamorphosis.
Mikhail
Baryshnikov at the Internet
Movie Database
1960 Robert
von Dassanowsky, cultural historian, writer, producer
1968 Sarah McLachlan,
singer/songwriter
1977
Joey Fatone, American
entertainer (band *N Sync; movie
My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
1980 Nick
Carter,
entertainer 1981 Elijah
Wood, actor
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