#Augustus Bishop

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Merry Christmas!

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VANISHING ENGLISH THEATRE & the Emerging Bengali Stage in Renaissant Calcutta

Prince of Wales’s Box at the English Theatre. Calcutta. 1875. Courtesy Getty’s Backdrop British ex-pats built ‘Town Calcutta’ replicating London to continue to live in an exclusive English style, shutting out the natives of the land. It may appear a hard saying, yet the fact remains that, even for the natives, Calcutta was an artificial place of residence [Firminger]. The Britishers were…

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VANISHING ENGLISH THEATRE & the Emerging Bengali Stage in Renaissant Calcutta

Prince of Wales’s Box at the English Theatre. Calcutta. 1875. Courtesy Getty’s Backdrop British ex-pats built ‘Town Calcutta’ replicating London to continue to live in an exclusive English style, shutting out the natives of the land. It may appear a hard saying, yet the fact remains that, even for the natives, Calcutta was an artificial place of residence [Firminger]. The Britishers were…

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🌏 AHC AU 🌎

Cody Augustus Jones

date of birth : 28th of April, 2090

planet of origin : Earth

species : human

pronouns : he/him/his/himself

gender : male

age : 15

occupation : heir to the company O’Neil Tech, regularly inventing new tools and machines for the company to use and produce

hobbies & interests : engineering, tracking down and collecting family memorabilia

Until recently, Cody Jones had lived a very isolated life, raised technically by his uncle Dunn (but we all know Serling actually did all the work, let’s be honest). That all changed after he built the Time Window, which turned out to be a little too effective and brought to him a new part of his family, the ninja turtles and master Splinter. They all encouraged Cody to trust himself more, to become more independent, and to question his uncle’s shady behavior. He’d since gone on more adventures in a few short months than he ever thought he could, he’d faced formidable foes and won, and by the time the Splintersons had to return home, they knew Cody would do okay on his own.

They didn’t mean to take Serling away with them, but he’s gone now, nevertheless, and Cody worries how he’ll deal with everything on his own in the wake of Darius Dunn’s arrest and trial. He is under the protection of President Bishop, a man that he deeply admires (and that he’s saved the world with before!) and lives with the Dark Turtles in the presidential condo (ooh, fancy). He and the Kanabo turtles feel a certain level of solidarity in how they were respectively abused by Dunn, though Cody can’t help but feel like he should’ve done something sooner. He’s decided to at least look after them now and help them navigate the world they’ve been brought into.

(And if Cody had a nickel for every time he helped a family of mutants navigate the world despite barely having explored any of it himself, he’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s enough to perhaps make him get attached quicker than he should.)

official character tag : #ahc cody / #ahc cody jones (chances are neither of the authors will remember to use just one or the other ^^’)

~ art and moodboard by authors!

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Important ingredients for making Cody Augustus Jones:

⭐️ awkward goober

⭐️ rich boy privileges (has no clue)

⭐️ hair so bright you could see it from Moonbase Bishop

⭐️ kicks major ass and then apologizes profusely for punching you in the face harder than he meant

⭐️ button nose

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As the theory of woman's wickedness gathered force, her representative place in the church lessened. From century to century restrictive canons multiplied and the clergy constantly grew more corrupt— although bearing bad reputation at an early date. Tertullian, whose heavy diatribes are to be found in large libraries, was bitter in his opposition to marriage. While it took many hundreds of years for the total exclusion of woman from the Christian priesthood, the celibacy of the clergy during this period was the constant effort of the church. Even during the ages that priestly marriage was permitted, celibates obtained a higher reputation for sanctity and virtue than married priests who, infinitely more than celibates were believed subject to infestation by demons.

The restriction upon clerical marriages proceeded gradually. First the superior holiness of the unmarried was taught, together with their greater freedom from infestation by demons. A single marriage only was next allowed, and that with a woman who had never before entered the relation. The council of A.D. 347, consisting of twenty-one bishops, forbade the ordination of those priests who had been twice married or whose wife had been a widow. A council of A.D. 395 ruled that a bishop who had children after ordination should be excluded from the major orders. The council of A.D. 444 deposed Chelidonius, Bishop of Besancon, for having married a widow. The council of Orleans (A.D. 511), consisting of thirty-two bishops, decided that monks who married should be expelled from the ecclesiastical order.

The church was termed the spouse of the priest. It was declared that Peter possessed a wife before his conversion but that he forsook her and all worldly things after he became Christ's, who established chastity. Priests were termed holy in proportion as they opposed marriage. The unmarried among the laity who had never entered that relation, and the married who forsook it, were regarded as saintly. So great was the opposition to marriage that a layman who married a second time was refused benediction and penance [was] imposed. A wife was termed "an unhallowed thing."

So far from celibacy producing chastity or purity of life, church restrictions upon marriage led to the most debasing crimes, the most revolting vices, the grossest immorality. As early as the fourth century (A.D. 370) the state attempted purification through a statute enacted by the emperors Valentinian, Valerius and Gratian, prohibiting ecclesiastics and monks from entering the houses of widows, single women living alone or girls who had lost their parents. The nearest ties of relationship proved ineffectual in protecting woman from priestly assault and incest became so common, it was found necessary to prohibit the residence of a priest's mother or sister in his house. This restriction was renewed at various times through the ages. The condemnation of the council of Rome (Easter, 1051) under the pontificate of Pope Leo IX, was not directed against married priests but against those who held incestuous relations.

Yet, although the church thus externally set her seal of disapprobation upon this vice, her general teaching sustained it. Gregory, Bishop of Venelli—convicted of this crime by the Council of Rome—was punished by excommunication but in a short time was restored to his former important position. The highest legates were equally guilty with the inferior priests. Cardinal John of Cremona, the pope's legate to the Council of Westminster (1125), sent by Pope Honorius for the express purpose of enforcing celibacy, became publicly notorious and disgraced and was obliged to hastily leave England in consequence of his teaching and his practice being diametrically opposed.

Through this clerical contempt of marriage, the conditions of celibacy and virginity were regarded as of the highest virtue. Jerome respected marriage as chiefly valuable in that it gave virgins to the church while Augustus, in acknowledging that marriage perpetuated the species, also contended that it also perpetuated original sin.

These diverse views in regard to marriage created the most opposite teaching from the church. By one class, the demand to increase and multiply was constantly brought up and women were taught that the rearing of children was their highest duty. The strangest sermons were sometimes preached toward the enforcement of this command. Others taught an entirely different duty for both men and women and a large celibate class was created under especial authority of the church. Women, especially those of wealth, were constantly urged to take upon themselves the vow of virginity, their property passing into possession of the church—thus helping to build up priestly power. Another class held the touch of a woman to be a contamination and to avoid it, holy men secluded themselves in caves and forests.

Through numerous decretals, confirmation was given to the theory that woman was defiled through the physical peculiarities of her being. Even her beauty was counted as an especial snare and temptation of the devil for which, in shame, she ought to do continual penance. Chrysostom, whose prayer is repeated at every Sunday morning service of the Episcopal Church, described women as a "necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination and a painted ill." But to escape her influence was impossible, and celibacy led to the most direful results. Monks and hermits acknowledged themselves tormented in their solitary lives by visions of beautiful women. Monasteries were visited by an illness to which celibacy imparted a name and impurity of body and soul spread throughout Christendom. The general tone of the church in regard to marriage, its creation of a double code of morality, its teaching of woman's greater sinfulness—together with that of her absolute subordination to man—subverted the moral character of the Christian world, within whose borders the vilest systems of immorality arose which the world has ever known, its extent being a subject of historical record.

-Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church and State

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“The early Church also institutionalized the care of widows and orphans and saw after the needs of the sick, especially during epidemics. During the pestilences that struck Carthage and Alexandria, the Christians earned respect and admiration for the bravery with which they consoled the dying and buried the dead, at a time when the pagans abandoned even their friends to their terrible fate."1 In the North African city of Carthage, the third-century bishop and Church father Saint Cyprian rebuked the pagan population for not helping victims of the plague, preferring instead to plunder them: "No compassion is shown by you to the sick, only covetousness and plunder open their jaws over the dead; they who are too fearful for the work of mercy, are bold for guilty profits. They who shun to bury the dead, are greedy for what they have left behind them." Saint Cyprian summoned followers of Christ to action, calling on them to nurse the sick and bury the dead. Recall that this was still the age of intermittent persecution of Christians, so the great bishop was asking his followers to help the very people who had at times persecuted them. But, he said, "If we only do good to those who do good to us, what do we more than the heathens and publicans? If we are the children of God, who makes His sun to shine upon good and bad, and sends rain on the just and the unjust, let us prove it by our acts, by blessing those who curse us, and doing good to those who persecute us.”2”

- Thomas E. Woods Jr., Ph.D., “How Catholic Charity Changed the World,” How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization

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1. Lecky, History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870), 87; Baluffi, The Charity of the Church, trans. Denis Gargan (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son, 1885), 14-15; Schmidt, Social Results of Early Christianity, 328.

2. Gerhard Uhlhorn, Christian Charity in the Ancient Church (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883), 187-188.

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Events 7.12 (before 1920)

70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple. 927 – King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of the Cumbrians accepted the overlordship of King Æthelstan of England, leading to seven years of peace in the north. 1191 – Third Crusade: Saladin's garrison surrenders to Philip Augustus, ending the two-year siege of Acre. 1335 – Pope Benedict XII issues the papal bull Fulgens sicut stella matutina to reform the Cistercian Order. 1470 – The Ottomans capture Euboea. 1488 – Joseon Dynasty official Choe Bu returned to Korea after months of shipwrecked travel in China. 1493 – Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. 1527 – Lê Cung Hoàng ceded the throne to Mạc Đăng Dung, ending the Lê dynasty and starting the Mạc dynasty. 1543 – King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr, at Hampton Court Palace. 1562 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatán, burns the sacred idols and books of the Maya. 1576 – Mughal Empire annexes Bengal after defeating the Bengal Sultanate at the Battle of Rajmahal. 1580 – The Ostrog Bible, one of the early printed Bibles in a Slavic language, is published. 1691 – Battle of Aughrim (Julian calendar): The decisive victory of William III of England's forces in Ireland. 1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage. 1789 – In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later. 1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly. 1799 – Ranjit Singh conquers Lahore and becomes Maharaja of the Punjab (Sikh Empire). 1801 – British ships inflict heavy damage on Spanish and French ships in the Second Battle of Algeciras. 1806 – At the insistence of Napoleon, Bavaria, Baden, Württemberg and thirteen minor principalities leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine. 1812 – The American Army of the Northwest briefly occupies the Upper Canadian settlement at what is now at Windsor, Ontario. 1862 – The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress. 1913 – Serbian forces begin their siege of the Bulgarian city of Vidin; the siege is later called off when the war ends. 1913 – The Second Revolution breaks out against the Beiyang government, as Li Liejun proclaims Jiangxi independent from the Republic of China. 1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. 1918 – The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

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As promised a while back to @fate-magical-girls, a (handmade, and therefore a little rough) translation of a small excerpt from the book Il Carme di Ildebrando: Un padre, un figlio, un duello ("The Song of Hildebrand: A father, a son, a duel") by Alessandro Zironi:

"4.1.1 Theodoric

Around the year 375, the Huns, moving from the Asian steppes, venture into the west and overwhelm the Ostrogoths, who are staying in the southern Russian plains. From that moment, until the death of king Attila (453) they'll be part of that congeries of peoples that goes, indeed, by the name Huns. Attila dies suddenly; his unexpected passing triggers centrifugal forces: the Ostrogoths, now, make themselves autonomous, led by three brothers. Just one year after the death of Attila, in 454, a son, Theodoric, is born to Theodemir. Our Theodoric. At the age of eight, he is sent as a hostage to Constantinople to seal a deal with the emperor: he stays there for a decade; soon after his return, after the death of his father and uncle, he becomes king. The years of his rule spent at the side of the Eastern Roman Empire, are quite troubled, a long period that concludes fifteen years later (489), when Theoderic with his people enters Italy, sent by emperor Zeno to conquer the peninsula from Odoacher, he who in 476 deposed Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Theoderic's Italian campaign starts off on the the right foot, as testified by his military victories on the Isonzo and, especially, in Verona. After these first assaults, though, the final victory is long-awaited: only in 493, after a three-year siege, he'll set foot in Ravenna capital of the Italic kingdom, thanks to the mediation of the city's bishop, who convinces the two contenders to rule jointly. Immediately after, however, Theoderic, by his own hand, kills Odoacher,, remaining the only sovereign, and he'll rule until his death, in 526, at the age of seventy-two.

Following this, the fate of the Goths in Italy swiftly goes downhill: nine yeas after, emperor Justinian will unleash a war for the conquest of Italy, that will conclude, with the Byzantine victory of 553, after eighteen years of devastation and the destruction of the peninsula. Theoderic is nonetheless esteemed, even by the Byzantine enemies, so much that the reinstatement of all property rights in Italy is traced back to his time. Soon enough, however, a hostile opinion on the sovereign forms, too, of which we already find traces in historical sources very close to his death, but is affirmed especially thanks to the words of Gregory the Great, who paints him as a persecutor of the Roman patricians, particularly Symmachus and Boethius, whom the Goth had sentenced to death for high treason. It's the same disparaging tradition found in the Anglo-Saxon world, surely not among the Longobards, who as we were saying were in close contact with the Goths, and whose sovereigns are related to the Amal dynasty.

Right away, the Theodorician biography starts cloaking itself in with episodes that have more to do with legendary transmission than with historical reality. But the tale, quickly become an integral part of the narrations focused on the king, is tied to the end of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy and to the political vicissitude of Theodoric, the only ruler we have memory of, the most prestigious. He is the Gothic king par excellence and so it is to him that the loss of the kingdom is connected. Such a defeat is not tied back to military events such as a long war but rather to an usurpation, which the Hildebrandslied attributes to Odoacher. The narrative mechanism, then, is that of a legitimate sovereign, in this case Theoderic, who loses his kingdom due to a fraudolent dethroning, on which are grafted subsequent attempts at a recapture.

At first sight, this upturning of historical reality appears curious, since it's Theoderic who forces out Odoacher, but there is a reasonable explanation. The historical vicissitude, according to some sources, see the Goth reach Italy after pressure from and deals made with the emperor of Constantinople to conquer the peninsula and reinstate the legality compromised by the usurper Odoacher. This justifiable diplomatic reading of the facts, once far from the intrigue in the palaces of Constantinople, finds, in later narrations, simpler motivations, according to which Theoderic would sit on a legitimate throne that belonged to other Goths before him; Odoacher is, then, labelled an usurper, but he dethrones Theoderic instead of the Westerner emperor. Theoderic is then forced into exile, and following that tries to recapture his own kingdom.

The loss of Italy, the exile and the attempts to recapture the royal seat are, in nuce, the fundamental themes that characterize all heroic-legendary narrations about Theoderic che the critique has grouped under the label "historical Theoderician epic", transcribed and composed, in the German area, starting from the XIII century. Still to the theme of Theoderic's exile is also tied his presence in Attila's court in the Nibelungic-Volsungic cycle, represented, in the German area, by the Nibelungenlied, and in the Nordic area by some heroic poems preserved through the Eddic collection. Therefore Germanic tradition in the German area frames the Gothic ruler in a context of tragedy and sorrow due to the loss of the kingdom and his companions (a trait, this one, that predominates in the Nibelungic-Volsungic narrations) and sees him as guest among Attila's Hunnish court. It is easy then to comprehend how history turned into legend: as Theoderic is the quintessential king of the Goths, so Attila is the only Hunnic sovereign heroic tradition remembers. So, when Theoderic loses his kingdom, it is among that people that he finds refuge and hospitality and from there he'll go on to recapture Italy.

There is then another, incredibly wide narrative tradition tied to the figure of Theoderic of an adventurous and fairy-tale-like tradition, mostly set in Italy, in the king's younger years, who dedicates himself to clashes and fights against giants and dwarves. Finally we must mention the Þiðrekssaga af Bern: it's a complex text, in many aspects epigonal, which gathers in one narration the most important cycles of continental Germanic tradition with at its core (but not exclusively focused on) the vicissitude of Theoderic and the Nibelungs. Among the numerous episodes, of particular relevance, for the relationships with the Hildebrandlied, is Theoderic's undercover entry in Italy with Hildebrand.

4.1.2 Odoacher

He's born two decades before Theoderic, around the year 433. Odoacher is mentioned by historiographical sources coeval to after the death of Attila. He accompanies powerful rulers who move on the chessboard of the by now dying, fragmented Western Roman Empire, both in Gaul and in Italy. His political and military ascent becomes more and more important, enough to reach the highest levels of the Roman warrio hierarcy. In 476 he deposes Romolus Augustus, becoming the only, undisputed ruler of the peninsula. His control over Italy is, in those tempsetuous times, rather long, 17 years, reaching 493, when Theoderic enters Ravenna. The sources remembers in various ways his murder; some suggest vengeful motives, others reasons of safeguard against plots, a last one hold Odoacher to be the victim of a betrayal. Theoderic's ruthlesness towards the enemy's kin is also remembered: his wife Sunigilda, for example, his made to starve.

Odoacher's figure, even if symbolically relevant from a historical point of view, having deposed the last Western emperor, did not find gret fortune in the Germanic literary tradition. He appears in the Hildebrandslied, where he's referred to as the cause of Theoderic and Hildebrand's exile, and is mentioned in a very late text, one of the printed versions (known as Ecken Auszfahrt, The death of Ecke, 1559) of the Eckenlied (Song of Ecke) which is part of the group of fairy-tale-like Theoderician narrations. At the end that poem is remembered how Odoacher deposes Romolus Augustus and takes control of the kingdom of Italy, until Theoderic defeats him.

Thus Odoacher knows no tradition outside of the vicissitude of Theoderic, to whom he's closely tied. His name will be lost quickly enough in the literary narrations, but we can follow his progressive oblivion. He's rapidly replaced, in his function as Theoderic's antagonist and the usurper of his kingdom, by Ermanaric, an Ostrogothic king who lived in the IV century, of whom on the other hand, legendary tales preserve a wide memory. Ermanic, it must be remembered, is in the Theoderician heroic tales Theoderic's uncle: the political conflict between king and usurper, a strong theme in the Hildebrandslied, is move to a more understandable family rivalry between uncle and nephew; after all, Germanic tales paint Ermanaric as an evil ruler even in narrative contexts not connected to the Theoderician cycle. The Annals of Quedlinburg still mention Odoacher, but he's not Theoderic's direct rival anymore: there, he's Ermanaric's evil advisor, who recommends exiling his nephew to the king. As the literary transmission goes on, Odoacher disappear, leaving the role of evil counselor to Sibeche. Finally in Kaiserchronik (Chronicle of the Emperors), a Middle High German work in verses with historiographical aspirations but actually with a good filling of heroic traditions, it is remembering that, on entering Northern Italy, he was defeated by Theoderic when he came back from his exile in the court of emperor Zeno. After that, nothing more, until the 1559 print of the Song of Ecke, but there the information is much more likely to come from historical sources rather than from a legendary tradition."

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Le Baud gives a detailed account of the response of the Breton aristocracy ("les Barons’) to this state of affairs. They managed to communicate with the captive Duchess through the Seneschal o f Rennes, who relayed the Duchess’s mandate that the barons should, "se tirassent à son fils Artur, et qu’ils luy fissent fidelité et hommage, et luy servissent et obéissent, en faisant pour luy ainsi qu’ils avoient fait pour elle". Arthur being of such a young age, he would not have received the barons’ homage before, and presumably Constance was seeking to secure Arthur’s succession in the event that she was never freed. Consequently, Le Baud continues, the barons assembled in the presence of Arthur at Saint-Malo de Beignon (canton Guer, arrondissement Ploërmel, département Morbihan). If Le Baud is to be relied upon about the location, it is significant in interpreting the evidence for this assembly. Saint-Malo de Beignon was a rural estate and a summer residence o f the bishops o f Saint-Malo in the hinterland o f the diocese, towards the centre of eastern Brittany. The location may have been chosen for the security of the young Arthur, who had to be protected from being physically taken into custody by Richard’s men. It would have offered greater security to all the participants in the assembly than a location nearer to the coast or the eastern frontier. The latter was completely controlled by the Angevin ruler as Duke o f Normandy, Count of Anjou, and Count of Poitou. It was also neutral territory in the sense that it was not ducal territory, and it was physically quite central and proximate to the estates of most of the barons involved. Le Baud implies that the barons assembled at Saint-Malo de Beignon to render homage, at the request of Duchess Constance, because Arthur was already there. The implication that Arthur was staying at a residence of the Bishop o f Saint-Malo suggests that the bishop played an important role in this affair. Perhaps more generally the impetus came from the bishops, because the Bishop o f Vannes, Guethenoc, also took an active role, later taking responsibility for the delivery of Arthur to the custody of Philip II Augustus o f France (1180-1223). Bishops would also have had the administrative resources, for instance, to draft and send out letters of summons.

Judith Everard, Aristocratic Assemblies in Brittany, 1066 -1203

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(Mike, Augustus and Charlie are playing three-person chess.)

Mike: My catapult flings my bishop to Charlie’s queen’s gorilla two.

Charlie: Nice. Okay, rook to transporter pad. And he comes out at Auggie’s queen’s bishop five-and-a-third. Check on Auggie.

Augustus: Hang on. Ven is mein pawn allowed to use ze golf cart?

Mike: When it’s done charging. Or you land on the time machine. Obviously.

Augustus: Oh, oh, beekeeper to king 12. I capture your pope und release ze svarm. Checkmate on Mike.

Mike: I knew I should have given my pope the jet pack.

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SAINT OF THE DAY (April 6)

Saint William of Eskilsoë

William was born into an illustrious French family and raised in the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés under the tutelage of his uncle, Abbot Hugh.

The regularity of his conduct and virtuous life earned him the admiration of the community.

After being ordained a sub-deacon, he was appointed a canon of the Church of Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont in Paris, where the sanctity of his life greatly annoyed his worldly and lax fellow-canons.

They mocked him for his more disciplined life and so persecuted him that William was forced to resign his canonry.

However, in 1148, during a visit to Paris by Blessed Pope Eugene III, the latter observed the canonical laxity that reigned at Sainte-Geneviève-du-Mont and replaced the canons with more observant men, thus vindicating William’s reputation.

Under the direction of the famous Abbot Suger, a new canonry with a stricter set of rules was established.

William rejoined the community and, in a short time, became sub-prior.

William tempered his zeal for regular discipline with so much sweetness and humility that he led all to practice the rule with joy.

The fame of his wisdom and sanctity even reached the ears of Absalon, the Bishop of Roskilde in Denmark, who sent his provost, the historian Saxo the Grammarian, to ask William to come to Denmark to help with the much-needed reforms there.

The prospect of hardships and challenges in the service of Our Lord inspired William to accept the invitation, and he cheerfully traveled to Denmark.

There, he was appointed Abbot of Eskilsoë and, although he faced many difficulties both from powerful people and from within himself, he triumphed through prayer and patience.

His apostolic zeal and perseverance bore much fruit for the Catholic Faith in Denmark during the thirty years he lived among the Danes.

He also founded the Abbey of St. Thomas in Aebelhold (Ebelholt) in Zeeland and traveled to Rome to intercede with the Pope on behalf of the king’s sister, Ingelburga, who had been repudiated by her royal husband, King Philip Augustus of France.

William died in Denmark on 6 April 1203 and was canonized Pope Honorius III in 1224.

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OC lore #2

Warning: This story is completely fictional and does not aim to offend the feelings of believers. The concepts of hell and heaven may differ from the holy Scriptures. All these persons are completely unreal, all coincidences are random.

Act 1: The Fall.

1905. An angel who escaped from paradise falls next to one of the country boarding houses for women on the outskirts of Paris. The angel takes the form of a beautiful red-haired girl, then her caregivers find her and begin to take care of her, naming the girl Bela. At the boarding school, Bela meets a girl named Michelle Bastien, who does not distance herself from the angel like the other girls at the boarding school. After some time together, they realize that they are falling in love with each other.

Act 2: Imprisonment.

The year is 1910. Michelle and Bela move to Paris, but before they can settle there, one of the bishops suddenly accuses Bela of having an affair with evil spirits and imprisons her in the basement of one of the monasteries. Desperate, Michelle comes up with a plan and cuts off her hair (before that she had long braids) She goes to the monastery of St. Augustus in the guise of a young priest.

Act 3: An unexpected helper.

For several days, Michelle (who pretends to be priest Michael) everything went according to plan, but one day, while changing clothes in her cell, she was caught by one of the senior priests, Viktor Danko, but fortunately the man turned out to be understanding and after Michelle's touching story, he agreed to help her save her girlfriend. Victor organized meetings of the girls in the basement and tried to help them plan their escape.

But everything turns out to be not so simple. Bishop Oscar Costello does not doze off and begins to notice changes in Victor's behavior and a certain secrecy. He calls the priest to his office and asks him to voluntarily confess if he is doing something unclean, but Victor does not give out details of his current activities, for which Oscar sends him to the basement for a few days in the hope that he will come to his senses and confess.

While imprisoned, Danko accidentally overhears a conversation of one of the priests and Oscar, which ends with the terrible and gradually subsiding screams of the priest. A few moments later, Victor sees Oscar through the small door window, covered in blood. The bishop grins, looking straight into Victor's eyes, and then disappears into the darkness. By the dangerous and unnatural gleam in Costello's eyes, it was possible to understand that he was possessed by a demon.

Act 5: The bitterness of confession, the pain of purification.

After being released from temporary detention, Victor intends to exorcise the demon from Oscar at any cost. He begins to look for ways of exorcism and finds a valid prayer. At the same time, Oscar invites him back to his office, where the demon inside him reveals his essence, but Victor manages to say a prayer and expel the demon from the Bishop's body.

Act 6: The path to a new life.

Oscar drops the charges against Bela, and Victor helps the girls leave the monastery. They leave Paris for Orleans, where they begin to live together in a small village. Victor and Oscar's relationship also began to improve and their bond with each other strengthened.

Characters

Michelle Bastien

Age: 24 years old

Height: 168 cm

Character: Gentle and kind. The girl is empathetic, kind and slightly naive, which is why she can get into trouble. She is single-minded and has a great thirst for knowledge and new experiences. He values the opinion of authority very much, sometimes he takes everything too close to his heart. He thinks she's clumsy and sometimes too prejudiced against herself. In a certain situation, he can stand up for himself and his loved ones, discarding shyness.

Brief biography: Born and raised in a wealthy family of planters in the north of France. Her parents sent her to boarding school to study when she turned thirteen after she studied at home.

Bela Bastien

Age: over 1000 years old. Claims that she is 24

Height: 173 cm

Character: Calm, kind, ready to do anything to protect what she holds dear. Because of her supernatural nature, she may seem unemotional. Sometimes cruel, but fair. After escaping from paradise, she began to doubt in her devotion to the Lord, the girl is shy about her essence, but during communication with Michelle she begins to acquire humanity. It turns out that Bela is quite funny, but with a certain sense of humor. She also perfectly distinguishes between lies and really dislikes being lied to.

Brief Biography: Was an angel who decided to escape from paradise because of the injustice taking place in heaven. She wanted to get to know people better and experience the feeling of love, so she decided to escape.

Victor Danko:

Character: Unsociable in appearance due to the fact that he rarely smiles, but he has a soft side. A very serious person, completely devoted to his work and faith, because of this, it is sometimes quite difficult for him to establish relationships with people, because he may seem too rude. Victor has developed empathy, despite his formidable appearance, he really wants everyone to be fine. He likes to take care of children and animals, especially small goats and lambs. In the role of a mentor, he is very strict, but always makes sure that his ward makes tremendous progress in learning.

Brief biography: At the age of 7, his parents sent him to a monastery, where he studied and became a priest. Since his youth, he had known Oscar, they used to be good friends, but due to the fact that Oscar had achieved a high status before Victor, they began to move away from each other. Victor misses the times when he and Costello talked more often and wants to bring back the man he knew.

 Oscar Costello

Age: 40 years old

Height: 189 cm

Character: Strict, cold and mocking. He used to be more friendly and kind, but when he got a high position in the church, he began to consider himself superior to others. After Oscar's body was captured by a demon, he became more rude and acted cruelly towards other priests, which an ordinary Oscar, despite his severity, would never have done. After the demon was exorcised from him, he changed and became more responsive and caring.

Brief biography: As the son of a bishop, he spent his whole life in a monastery, received a brilliant education and he quickly assumed a high status, replacing his father in the post. He has known Victor since childhood, was a good friend and mentor to him, but over time their relationship has changed, however, Oscar regrets his rudeness and coldness towards an old friend, but does not find the strength to talk to him and establish a relationship.

[lboogie1906]

Bishop Charles Edward Blake Sr. (born August 5, 1940) is a minister and retired pastor who served as the Presiding Bishop and leader of the Church of God in Christ, a 6 million-member Holiness-Pentecostal denomination.

Blake was the fifth Presiding Bishop (and seventh leader) of the historically African American denomination (2007-21). He was the Jurisdictional Prelate of the First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Southern California (1985-2009).

He is married to Mae Lawrence Blake and they have three children together, Charles Blake II (Jr.), Lawrence Blake, and Kimberly Blake, and they have eight grandchildren.

He was born in Little Rock to the late Bishop Junious Augustus (J. A.) Blake, Sr. and the late Evangelist Lula M. Blake. He has one older brother, J. A. Blake, Jr., who is a bishop and pastor in the COGIC denomination in San Diego.

He was the pastor of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ (1969-2022), one of the largest African American churches in the Western United States, with a membership of over 24,000. The church started with only 50 members when he became pastor.

He is an advocate of education and academic excellence, who holds multiple academic and honorary degrees, from various educational institutions. Most recently, Biola University conferred an honorary doctorate upon him. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[corainne]

MID YEAR FREAKOUT BOOK TAG THINGY

Or whatever it is called I just saw a tik tok and felt like doing it even if exactly zero (0) persons are gonna care idc I'm sick so leave me alone

Number of books read this year so far: 55

1. Best book you've read so far in 2024

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai, first book to properly make me cry since A Monster Calls a decade ago. Beautiful, heartbreaking, 10/10

2. Best sequel you've read so far this year

On pure enjoyment I'd say City of Vengence by D. V. Bishop (I'll count it as a sequel even though it's book 1 because I read book 3 first), on a craft basis Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and Winter of the World by Ken Follett.

Obligatory shoutout to the seven Gereon Rath books I've read this year, I could never choose a favourite because I read them all in a span of like two weeks and they've all clumped together in a blob of Nazis and misery. (If pressed I'd say Märzgefallene, followed by Die Akte Vaterland)

3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to

The Women by Kristin Hannah

Dust Child by Nguyên Phan Quê Mai

A Divine Fury by D. V. Bishop

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year

Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson

Rath by Volker Kutscher

5. Biggest disappointment

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguru. Really didn’t like that one, especially the back third.

6. Biggest surprise

Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor by Adrian Goldsworthy. Not really the airport read I was expecting to pick up (granted, the only fiction book I had with me was The Name of the Rose and that’s not what I would consider light reading) but I enjoyed it a lot more than expected (tbh honest I thought it was going to spend the next decade or so on my shelf unread like most of my history books) and it really furthered my current love for history non-fiction.

7. Favourite new author (debut or new to you)

Colson Whitehead. I read The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys for the first time this year, and they were both masterful.

8. Newest fictional crush

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9. Newest favourite character

Empress Messalina, who is not a character but a historical figure. You go girl, sorry you had to die and had your name dragged through the mud by misogynistic men for millenia

10. Book that made you cry feel physically sick

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

11. A book that made you happy

Gwen & Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher

12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

The 103 unread books on my tbr shelf

At the beginning of the year I set myself the goal of reading 12 classics (0/12), non-fiction (12/12), award-winning (8/12) and translated novels (3/12), so I'd like to finish that goal.

More specifically my priority tbr at the moment is:

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Dust Child by Nguyên Phan Quê Mai

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

In Memoriam by Alice Winn

Currently reading:

Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Not going to tag anyone, but if you want to do this feel free to consider yourself tagged, I love to see what other people are reading

[brookston]

Holidays 5.14

Holidays

Armed Forces/Amateur Radio Crossband Test Day

Bond with Your Dog Day

Carlsbad Caverns Day

Childhood Apraxia of Speech Awareness Day

Drunk Driving Memorial Day

Fahrenheit Day

Ferdowsi Day (Iran)

Flag Day (Paraguay)

Hastings Banda Day (Malawi)

Help Clean Up Your Street Day

International Chihuahua Appreciation Day

International Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians

International Dylan Thomas Day (a.k.a. Dylan Day)

International Ring 14 Day

Kamuzu Day (Malawi)

Mallard Day (All-Souls College; Oxford, UK)

Mary Seacole Day (UK)

Midnight Sun at North Cape (Norway)

Molecular Gastronomy Day

Motorcycle Riders Day

National Bruce Day

National Dance Like a Chicken Day

National Day of Safety for Tow Truck Operators (Canada)

National Decency Day

National Good Hair Day

National Metaverse Day

National Mills Day (UK)

National ODP Day (UK)

National Om Day

National Travel Insurance Claims Day

National Underground America Day

National Unification Day (Liberia)

Online Romance Day

Peony Day

Resistance and Liberation Day (Lebanon)

Rose Day (South Korea)

Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day

Stars and Stripes Forever Day

Underground America Day

World Topiary Day

World Verbal Dyspraxia Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brewster's Day

Buttermilk Biscuit Day

Condensed Milk Day

Marshmallow Fluff Day

National Brioche Day

Independence & Related Days

Israel (Declared, 1948)

Paraguay (from Spain, 1811)

Tavil (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Wintroopstan (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

2nd Tuesday in May

Childhood Depression Awareness Day (a.k.a. Green Ribbon Day) [Tuesday of 1st Full Week]

National Slow Down Move Over Day (Canada) [2nd Tuesday]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning May 14 (2nd Full Week)

Cannes Film Festival (Cannes, France) [thru 5.25]

Festivals Beginning May 14, 2024

Cannes Film Festival (Cannes, France) [thru 5.25]

Google I/O (Mountain View, California)

Organic Week 2024 (Washington D.C.) [thru 5.16]

Orlando Fringe (Orlando, Florida) [thru 5.27]

Sweets & Snacks Expo (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 5.16]

Taste of Greenwich Village (New York, New York)

Feast Days

Antonio Berni (Artology)

Augustus (Positivist; Saint)

Baabra Sheep (Muppetism)

Baisakhi (Vaisakhi; Sikh)

Boniface of Tarsus, the fourth of the Ice Saints (Christian; Saint)

Carthagh, Bishop of Lismore (Christian; Saint)

Christ’s Ascension (Christian; Commonly accepted date, 33 CE)

Engelmund of Velsen (Christian; Saint)

Erembert (Christian; Saint)

Festival of the Midnight Sun (Norse; Everyday Wicca)

Gefjon’s Blot (Pagan)

Henri Julien (Artology)

Izumo-taisha Shrine Grand Festival begins (Shinto; Japan)

Mars Invictus Festival (Ancient Rome)

Mary Mazzarello (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Matthias the Apostle (Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion)

Michael Garicoïts (Christian; Saint)

Mo Chutu of Lismore (Roman Catholic Church)

Monty Python Day (Pastafarian)

Ninefold Chant (Celtic Book of Days)

Pontius (Christian; Martyr)

Return to All-Day-Life (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Richard Estes (Artology)

Thomas Gainsborough (Artology)

Victor and Corona (Christian; Saint)

Wonder Warthog Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 22 of 60)

Premieres

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Film; 1938)

All This Useless Beauty, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1996)

Barbie Girl, by Aqua (Song; 1997)

The Bee-Deviled Bruin (WB MM Cartoon; 1949)

Carte Blanched (The Inspector Cartoon; 1969)

A Cat, a Mouse and a Bell (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1935)

Coffee and Cigarettes (Film; 2004)

Combat Rock, by the Clash (Album; 1982)

Conan the Barbarian (Film; 1982)

The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden (Children’s Book; 1960)

The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R. Delany (Novel; 1967)

Goldielocks and the Three Bears (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)

Good Bye Lenin! (Film; 2003)

Hallowed Ground, by Violent Femmes (Album; 1984)

Hatch Up Your Troubles (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1949)

The Hebrides (a.k.a. Fingal’s Cave), by Felix Mendelssohn (Concert Overture; 1832)

Hungary Hoboes (Disney Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1928)

Hyde and Go Tweet (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)

It’s Got Me Again! (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

I’ve Got Ants in My Plans (Ant and the Aardvark Cartoon; 1969)

Jesephslegende, by Richard Strauss (Ballet; 1914)

The Last Roundup (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

Lemonade, by Beyoncé (Album; 2016)

Letters to Juliet (Film; 2010)

Little Old Lady (from Pasadena), recorded by The Everly Brothers (Song; 1964)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Film; 1999)

Mighty Like a Rose, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1991)

Mildred Pierce, by James M. Cain (Novel; 1941)

Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf (Novel; 1925)

My Dinner with Andre (Film; 1999)

Now That Summer is Gone (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1960)

People Got To Be Frees, recorded by The Rascals (Song; 1968)

The Platters, by The Platters (Album; 1956)

Puddy’s Coronation (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Robin Hood (Film; 2010)

Sailing the Seas of Cheese, by Primus (Album; 1991)

School Days, featuring Flip the Frog (Ub Iwerks Cartoon; 1932)

So Like Candy, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1991)

Tropical Fish, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Troy (Film; 2004)

Unbelievable, by EMF (US Song; 1991)

Vapor Trails, by Rush (Album; 2002)

Washington Confidential, by Jack Last and Lee Mortimer (Book; 1951)

Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen (Novel; 2011)

We Will Rock You (UK Musical; 2002)

Woody Dines Out (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1945)

Today’s Name Days

Bonifatius, Christian (Austria)

Mate, Matija, Matko (Croatia)

Bonifác (Czech Republic)

Kristian (Denmark)

Edith, Eede, Eedit (Estonia)

Tuula (Finland)

Aglaé, Matthias (France)

Bonifatius, Christian, Corona, Ismar, Pascal (Germany)

Aristotele, Isidoros (Greece)

Bonifác (Hungary)

Corona, Costanzo, Mattia (Italy)

Aiva, Duda, Elfa, Krišjānis, Krišs (Latvia)

Bonifacas, Gintarė, Teisutis (Lithuania)

Karsten, Kristen, Kristian (Norway)

Bończa, Bonifacy, Dobiesław, Jeremi, Jeremiasz, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz (Poland)

Isidor (România)

Irina (Russia)

Bonifác (Slovakia)

Matías (Spain)

Halvar, Halvard (Sweden)

Ashleigh, Ashley, Ashlie, Ashlyn, Ashlynn, Ashton, Berk, Berkeley, Bourke, Burgess, Burke (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 135 of 2024; 231 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 20 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 7 (Wu-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 6 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 6 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 15 Magenta; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 1 May 2024

Moon: 44%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 22 Caesar (5th Month) [Augustus]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 57 of 92)

Week: 2nd Full Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 25 of 31)

Calendar Changes

May (a.k.a. Maius; Julian Calendar) [Month 5 of 12]