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There came into the town of Hamel an old kind of
companion, who, for the fantastical coat which he wore being wrought
with sundry colours, was called the Pied Piper. This fellow, forsooth,
offered the townsmen, for a certain sum of money, to rid the town of
all the rats that were in it (for at that time the burghers were with
that vermin greatly annoyed). The accord, in fine, being made, the
Pied Piper, with a shrill pipe, went thorow all the streets, and
forthwith the rats came all running out of the houses in great numbers
after him; all which he led into the river of Weaser, and therein
drowned them. |
Rattenfängerhaus |
St Mary
Magdalene is washing her handkerchief to go to her cousin St James's
fair [July 25].
English traditional expression, alluding to rain on
this day (St Mary Magdalene's Day). Mid-July rain is common in
England.
... you must
come yourself at the head of all your kings and prove to Us your
fealty and allegiance, And if you disregard the command of God and
disobey Our instructions, We shall look up on you as Our enemy.
Whoever recognizes and submits to the Son of Gods and Lord of the
World, refuses submission will be wiped out.
Güyük Khan (c. 1206 - 1248), Mongol leader, demanding the homage of
Pope Innocent
IV, July 22, 1246
The
wild man, Homo
ferus, does not fit into any definitive category in
eighteenth-century thought: for some he is a separate genus of mankind
or a monster; for others he is a model of uncorrupted nature, an
archetypal primitive. Just as the illustrators of the Encyclopédie
gave delirious dimensions to ordinary objects, Enlightenment writers
turned children found in the wild into the basis of zoological
taxonomies, tales of sin and redemption, schemas of primitive society,
or proof of human degradation.
Julia Douthwaite, Homo
ferus: Between Monster and Model;
Peter the Wild Boy first appeared on July 22, 1724
Kinquering Congs
their titles take.
William Spooner, born on July 22, 1844; announcing a hymn in
New College Chapel, 1879
Let us drink to
the queer old Dean.
William Spooner; attrib.
Sir, you have
tasted two whole worms, you have hissed all of my mystery lectures and
have been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the
next town drain.
William Spooner; attrib.
...
half-warmed fish.
William Spooner; attrib.
You will find as you
grow older that the weight of rages will press harder and harder on the
employer.
William Spooner; attrib.
I remember your name
perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.
William Spooner; attrib.
I think best in
wire.
Alexander
Calder, American sculptor, born on July 22, 1899
July
22 is
the 203rd
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (204th
in leap years), with 162
days remaining.
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Feast day of St Mary Magdalene
(Magdalen)
(African
lily, Agapanthus
umbellatus, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Mary Magdalene is mentioned in Luke 8:3 as one of the women who "ministered to Christ of their substance". Luke tells that out of Mary were cast seven demons, an exorcism.
Early tradition identified
as Mary Magdalene the unidentified woman who was a sinner in Luke 7:36-50:
" 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment."
The Gospel of Mary (a Gnostic gospel, a found in the Akhmim Codex, a text acquired by Dr Carl Reinhardt in Cairo in 1896 – see also the Nag Hammadi Library found in 1948) says the two Marys – virgin and harlot – are one and the same. Nonetheless, the Christian Church generally rejects this, and even the idea that Mary was "the woman who was a sinner", or that she was unchaste, is rejected by most Protestants.
Mary Magdalene and France
A medieval legend connected with her name represents her
as ending her days in France. It is said that,
after the crucifixion
of Jesus, she, in company with the Virgin Mary and
Mary Salome, being
persecuted by the Jews, set sail on the Mediterranean in a leaky boat, and
after a miraculous deliverance, landed in the south of Gaul. There, the party
separated, the Magdalen retired to St Baume near Marseille, to spend the
remainder of her days in penitence and prayer; and in that retreat, "in
the odour of sanctity" (Robert
Chambers), she died.
Saint Louis, King of France, was present at Vezelai when
the supposed body of this Biblical saint was placed in a shrine.
However, after this, Provence disputed the possession of
Mary Magdalene's relics. Their tradition was that St Maximin, Bishop of
Aix, had buried her at La Baume. Charlews, Prince of Salerno, commenced a
search for the body and was happy to find it. A delicious odour spread
through the chapel; from the tongue grew fennel, which divided into
several bits. Or, so it is said.
Mary Magdalene is a Roman
Catholic saint whose relics at Saint-Maximin were the occasion for such
throngs of pilgrims that the great Basilica
was erected from the mid-13th Century, one of the finest Gothic (see illustration)
churches in the south of France. Though her bones were scattered at the
French Revolution, her head remains in her shrine in a cave at La Sainte-Baume,
although another holds that she died in Ephesus
and was buried in Constantinople.
The Magdalene became a symbol
of repentance for the vanities of the world, and Mary Magdalene was the
patron of Magdalene College, Cambridge
(pronounced "maudlin" as in weepy penitents). Unfortunately her name
was also used for the infamous Magdalen Asylums in Ireland where supposedly
fallen women were treated as slaves.
Easter egg tradition
One fairly modern, quite
extra-biblical tradition concerning Mary Magdalene says that she was a
woman of some wealth and social status. Following Jesus
Christ's death and
resurrection, she used her position to gain an invitation to a banquet
given by Emperor Tiberius Caesar. When she met him, she held a
plain egg in her hand and exclaimed "Christ is risen!" Caesar laughed,
and said that Christ rising from the dead was as likely as the egg in her
hand turning red while she held it. Before he finished speaking, the egg
in her hand turned a bright red, and she continued proclaiming the Gospel
to the entire imperial house.
Today, many Eastern Orthodox Christians end the Easter
service by sharing bright red eggs and proclaiming to each other,
"Christ is risen!" The eggs represent new life, and Christ bursting
forth from the tomb. This began one tradition of colouring Easter eggs.
Wife of Jesus?
Some modern writers, notably
the authors of the 1982 Holy Blood, Holy Grail*, and Dan
Brown's The
Da Vinci Code*, hold that Mary
Magdalene was in fact the wife of Jesus, a fact
which was omitted by Pauline Christian revisionists and editors of the Gospels.
These writers cite extra-biblical and Gnostic
writings to support their argument. While sources like the Gospel of Philip depict Mary Magdalene as
being closer to Jesus
than any other disciple, there is no ancient document that claims
she was his wife.
Her patronage
includes the contemplative life,
contemplatives,
converts, druggists, glove makers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety,
perfumers, pharmacists, reformed prostitutes, sexual temptation,
tanners and women.
In England, the roses of summer are said to fade about
now.
Sources: Wikipedia, Chambers et al
* Holy Blood, Holy Grail at Wikipedia
* The Da Vinci Code at Wikipedia
I Remember Union: The Story of Mary Magdalena, by Flo Calhoun, et al Priory of Sion debunked
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Langdon and Sophie peered over the low brick wall
toward the famous Sydney Opera House and into the foyer, as 'lobby' is
called in Australia – a country in the Southern Hemisphere that many
people know from Crocdile Dundee and Crocodile Hunter.
"Can you see into the lobby, Sophie?" asked Robert Langdon.
"The earth is divided into hemispheres, Robert," Sophie Neveu
explained. "There is a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern, an Eastern
and a Western Hemisphere, like you have an East and West Coast in America,
east being on the right and west on the left of the 'map' (a kind of
street directory only world-sized). You might have seen maps on Discovery
Channel. Unlike people in the USA, Australians live in the Southern, and
Eastern Hemispheres. And rather than using the word 'lobby', they use the
French-sounding word, 'foy ––'"
"There he is!" interrupted Langdon. "It's the evil Silas,
the albino. I can tell, because of his very white skin and hair, as white
as Disney's Snow White's hair is black. And I think his eyes might be
pink, but from this distance ..." ...
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