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June 29 every year Today on the Feast Day of St. Peter and St. Paul, the Catholic Church kicks off an entire year devoted to the latter, in commemoration of the two-thousandth anniversary of Paul’s birth, believed to be between 7 and 10 AD. The two Apostles couldn’t have been more different. St. Peter was [...] June 26 every year Awaken thee, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber…
Today is National Flag Day in Romania. The three colors of the Romanian flag represent the blood of the people, the golden crops of the land, and the blue sky above…according to the Communists who ruled Romania from 1947 to 1989. [...]
The Scandinavians never pass up a chance for a good bonfire. Midsummer Night, or St. John’s Eve as it’s sometimes called in Denmark and Norway, is the perfect occasion. The holiday has little to do with St. John the Baptist, other than falling just before his saint day. In the 10th century Baltic and [...] |
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