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Now
the moon of my life has reached its last phase and my remaining years
draw near to their close. When I soon approach the Three Ways of the
Hereafter what shall I have to regret? The law of Buddha teaches
that we should shun all clinging to the world of phenomena, so that
the affection I have for this thatched hut is in some sort a sin, and
my attachment to this solitary life may be a hindrance to
enlightenment. Thus I have been babbling, it may be, of useless
pleasures, and spending my precious hours in vain. Kamo
no Chōmei,
Japanese poet, died on July 24, 1216 Source If you have to go
anywhere go on your own feet. It may be trying, but not so much so as
the bother of horses and carriages. Every one with a body has two
servants, his hands and feet, and they will serve his will exactly.
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Then
in the second year of the era Gen-ryaku [1184] there was a great
earthquake. And this was no ordinary one. The hills crumbled down and
filled the rivers, and the sea surged up and overwhelmed the land. The
earth split asunder and water gushed out. The rocks broke off and
rolled down into the valleys, while boats at sea staggered in the
swell and horses on land could find no sure foothold. What wonder that
in the capital, of all the temples, monasteries, pagodas and
mausoleums, there should not be one that remained undamaged. Some
crumbled to pieces and some were thrown down, while the dust rose in
clouds like smoke around them, and the sound of the failing buildings
was like thunder …
On these occasions it is the way of people to be
convinced of the impermanence of all earthly things, and to talk of
the evil of attachment to them, and of the impurity of their hearts,
but when the months go by and then the years, we do not find them
making mention of such views any more.
Kamo no Chōmei Source
All for one, one for
all, that is our device.
Alexandre Dumas, pere, born
on July 24, 1802; The Three Musketeers
When the white man
came, we had the land and they had the Bibles; now they have the land
and we have the Bibles.
Chief Dan George, Native
American actor, born on July 24, 1899; speaking on
March 29, 1952
Some one invented the assertion that there were only
"Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth
noticing. But a wiser man has arisen – the census taker – and his
larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out
the field of these little stories of the "Four Million".
O Henry, American author who was released from prison on July 24,
1901; 'The Four Million'
This is the greatest week in the history of the
world since Creation.
Richard
Nixon, on July 24, 1969, speaking of the manned Moon
landing
July 24 is the
205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar, with 160 days remaining.
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Feast day of St Christina the
Astonishing (Christina
Mirabilis)
Feast day
formerly July 4.
Born in Brustheim, near Liège,
Belgium in 1150, she died in 1224.
When she was about
22 (some sources say 32) she had a seizure and was assumed to be dead.
Christina was carried in an open coffin to the church, where a requiem
mass was held for her. Suddenly, after the Agnus Dei, Christina sat
up and levitated to the beams of the roof, where she stayed until finally
coaxed down by the priest whom she informed that she had died, gone to hell, to purgatory, and then to heaven, being permitted to
return to earth to pray for the suffering souls in purgatory. In her own
words:
"As soon as my soul was separated from my body,
it was received by angels, who conducted it to a very gloomy place,
entirely filled with souls. The torments which they there endured appeared
to me so excessive, that it is impossible for me to give any idea of their
rigour. I saw among them many of my acquaintances, and, deeply touched by
their sad condition, I asked what place it was, for I believed it to be
Hell.
"My guide answered me that it was Purgatory,
where sinners were punished who, before death, had repented of their
faults, but had not made worthy satisfaction to God. From thence I was
conducted into Hell, and there also I recognized among the reprobates some
whom I had formerly known.
"The angels then transported me into Heaven, even
to the throne of the Divine Majesty."
Following this, her eccentricities increased, as
she took herself to remote places, climbed trees, towers and rocks, and
even hid in ovens to escape the smell of humans. She could handle fire
without being burned and, in the coldest weather, swim into the river.
People assumed she was mad or possessed by devils, and every attempt to
confine her failed. Eventually she was caught by a man who hit her on the
leg to stop her, and it was thought that her leg was broken. A surgeon in
Liege splinted her leg and chained her to a pillar for safety, but this
confinement, too, she escaped of a night. She lived by begging, dressed in
rags, and behaved in ways that terrified the locals.
She
became a friend of Louis, Count of Looz, visiting him in his castle
and even rebuking him at times. Blessed Marie of Oignies thought well of
her, and St Lutgardis sought
her advice. Despite her wild life, she died a second time, of old age in
St Catherine's convent, Saint-Trond,
where her body is preserved in the
Redemptorist church.
As if all the Christinas on this page are not
confusing enough, the astonishing Christina is sometimes represented in
art with a wheel and palm (easily confused with Saint Catherine of
Alexandria (f.d. November 25), but
she is not crowned and her wheel has no spikes.
Her patronage includes insanity, lunatics, madness, mental disorders, mental handicaps, mental health caregivers, mental health professionals, mental illness, mentally ill people, psychiatrists and therapists.
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