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Here it is ladies! A list of female biographies! Highly anticipated by nobody but myself! This took a long time, so I hope it might be enjoyable to at least some people. I'll add to this whenever I feel like it. A few things before I begin:

1. The list is (roughly) organized alphabetically by the subjects last name.

2. The subjects occupation (if they had one) will be labeled with a corresponding symbol (i.e. painter = 🎨, writer =✏️, and so on and so forth). Books about same sex attracted women (lesbian or bi women) and women of color are labeled. Occupations that cannot be easily represented by symbols will simply be stated.

3. Biographies written or co-written by men will have with 🧔 after their names.

4. The subjects full birth name will be in brackets after the title.

5. If you're curious about a book and want more information or content warnings, please message me. I'll help as best I can.

•Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams by Lynne Withey [Abigail Adams] (Activist)

•Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra [Marian Hooper Adams]

•Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas [Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams]

•Jane Addams: Spirit in Action by Louise W. Knight [Jane Addams] (Activist, SSA)

•Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet by Roberta Reeder [Anna Andreyevna Gorenko] (✏️)

•Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen [Louisa May Alcott] (Activist, SSA,✏️)

•Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan [Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva] (✏️)

•Marian Anderson, A Singers Journey by Allen Keiler 🧔 [Marian Anderson] (WOC, Activist, 🎙)

•The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling [Mary Anning] (🦕)

•Susan B. Anthony: A Biography by Kathleen Barry [Susan B. Anthony] (Activist, SSA)

•Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser [Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne] (👑)

•Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade [Eleanor of Aquitaine] (👑)

•Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight [Catherine of Aragon] ( 👑)

•Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksley [Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll] (👑)

•Everything She Touched: Life of Ruth Asawa by Marilyn Chase [Ruth Aiko Asawa] (WOC, Sculptor)

•Jane Austen: A Life by Carol Shields [Jane Austen] (✏️)

•Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman: Mariana of Austria and the Government of Spain by Silvia Z. Mitchell [Mariana of Austria] (👑)

•The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria by Brigette Hamann [Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary] (👑)

•Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Cosmic Art of Lucille Ball by Stefan Kanfer 🧔 [Lucille Désirée Ball] (🎥)

•Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara by Eve Golden [Theodosia Burr Goodman, "Theda Bara"] (📽)

•Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez [Natalie Clifford Barney] (SSA, ✏️)

•Josephine: The Hungry Heart by Jean-Claude Baker 🧔 [Freda Josephine McDonald Baker] (WOC, SSA, Dancer, 📽)

•A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and The Civil War by Stephan B. Oates 🧔 [Clarissa Harlowe Barton] (🩺)

•Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly L. Craft [Countess Erzsébet Báthory de Ecsed] (Serial Killer)

•Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography by Deirdre Bair [Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir] (Activist, ✏️)

•The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd [Aphra Behn] (✏️)

•Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell by Janet Wallach [Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell] (Archaeologist)

•Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist by Frances Spalding [Vanessa Stephen Bell] (🎨)

•Ingrid Bergman by Grace May Carter [Ingrid Bergman] (🎥)

•Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World's First Superstar by Catherine Reef [Henriette-Rosine Bernard, "Sarah Bernhardt"] (🎭)

•Annie Besant: An Autobiography by Annie Besant [Annie Wood Besant] (Activist, ✏️)

•Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography by Benazir Bhutto [Benazir Bhutto] (WOC, Prime Minister)

•Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks [Saint Hildegard] (Abbess, Musician)

•Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven [Ada Delutuk Blackjack] (WOC, Explorer)

•The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura [Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell] (🩺)

•Lady Icarus: Balloonomania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Noyes [Marie Madeleine-Sophie Armant Blanchard] (🎈)

•Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth by Marion Meade [Helena Petrovna von Hahn Blavatsky] (✏️)

•Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger [Elizabeth Jane Cochran Seaman, "Nellie Bly"] (Activist, Reporter)

•Anne Boleyn by Norah Lofts [Anne Boleyn] (👑)

•Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte by Kate Williams [Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie Bonaparte] (👑)

•The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson [Lizzie Andrew Borden] (🪓)

•Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy by Sarah Bradford [Lucrezia Borgia] (Governor)

•Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge [Boudica] (👑, 🗡)

•Portrait of Myself by Margaret Bourke-White [Margaret Bourke-White] (📷)

•Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild by David Stenn 🧔[Clara Gordan Bow] (📽)

•The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien's Inspiration by Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays 🧔 [Edith Mary Bratt Tolkien]

•The Lost Life of Eva Braun by Angela Lambert [Eva Anna Paula Braun Hitler] (📷)

•Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Lady Anne Somerset [Anne, Queen of Great Britain] (👑)

•Tiny Broadwick: The First Lady of Parachuting by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson [Georgia Ann Thompson Broadwick] (🪂)

•The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne by Catherine Reef [Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jane Brontë, Anne Brontë] (✏️)

•Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth by Kristen Iversen [Margaret Tobin Brown] (Socialite)

•The Queen of the Ring: Sex, Muscles, Diamonds, and the Making of an American Legend by Jeff Leen 🧔 [Mildred Burke] (Wrestler)

•Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden by Gretchen Gerzina [Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett] (✏️)

•Josephine Butler by Jane Jordan [Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler] (Activist)

•Lady Byron and Her Daughters by Julia Markus [Anna Isabella Noel Milbanke Byron, 11th Baroness of Wentworth] (Mathematician)

•Theodora by Paolo Cesaretti 🧔 [Theodora Empress of Byzantium] (👑)

•Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer Laurie Shaw [Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob, "Claude Cahun"] (SSA, 📷)

•Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography by Anne Edwards [Sophie Cecilia Kalos, "Maria Callas"] (Opera Singer)

•Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Linda J. Lear [Rachel Louise Carson] (✏️, Marine Biologist)

•A Girl and Five Brave Horses by Sonora Webster Carver [Sonora Webster Carver] (Horse Diver)

•Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes [Mary Ann Shadd Cary] (WOC, Activist, Publisher)

•Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of Marchesa Casati by Scot D. Ryersson 🧔 and Michael Orlando Yaccarino 🧔 [Luisa Adele Rosa Maria Amman, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino] (Socialite)

•Mary Cassatt: A Life by Nancy Mathews [Mary Stevenson Cassatt] (🎨)

•Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman [Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire] (Activist,✏️)

•Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett 🧔 [Isabella I of Castile] (👑)

•Chanel: The Enigma by Isabelle Fiemeyer [Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel] (👗)

•The Edge of Time: The Authoritative Biography of Kalpana Chawla by Jean-Pierre Harrison 🧔 [Kalpana Chawla] (WOC, Astronaut, Engineer)

•The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modren China by Hannah Pakuka [Soong May-ling] (WOC)

•Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Noël Riley Fitch [Julia Carolyn McWilliams Child] (👩‍🍳)

•Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm [Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm] (WOC, Politician)

•Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley [Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie, Lady Mallowan] (✏️)

•Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Lauched Modern China by Jung Chang [The Current Divine Mother Empress Dowager Ci-Xi Duan-You Kang-Yi Zhao-Yu Zhuang-Cheng Shou-Gong Qin-Xian Chong-Xi of the Great Qing Empire] (WOC, 👑)

•Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell [Clementine Oglivy Spencer Hozior Churchill] (War-time Activist)

•Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff [Cleopatra VII Philopator] (👑)

•Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America's Youngest First Lady by Annette B. Dunlap [Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston]

•Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride by Elizabeth Norton [Anne of Cleves] (👑)

•Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman [Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, "Colette"] (SSA, ✏️)

•In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum [Marie Catherine Colvin] (Journalist)

•Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White House by Robert Hugh Ferrell 🧔 [Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge] (Teacher)

•Emma Darwin: The Inspirational Wife of a Genius by Edna Healey [Emma Wedgwood Darwin]

•Alexandra David-Neel: Portrait of an Adventurer by Ruth Middleton [Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David-Néel] (Explorer)

•Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis by Abigail Santamaria [Helen Joy Davidson] (✏️)

•Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies by Lara Gabrielle [Marion Cecilia Douras] (📽)

•Bette Davis by Grace May Carter [Ruth Elizabeth Davis] (🎥)

•Emily Wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette by Lucy Fisher [Emily Wilding Davison] (Activist, Teacher)

•The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers 🧔 [Gladys Marie Deacon Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough] (Socialite)

•Sentiments of a British-American Woman: Easter de Berdt Reed and the American Revolution by Owen S. Ireland 🧔 [Easter de Berdt Reed] (War-time Activist)

•Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de La Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead [Henriette-Lucy Dillon, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet] (Aristocrat)

•Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda [Catherine de' Medici] (👑)

•Queen Alexandra: Loyalty and Love by Frances Diamond [Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia of Denmark] (👑)

•Christine de Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy by Charlotte Cooper-Davis [Christina da Pizzano] (✏️)

•Kafka's Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant by Kathi Diamant [Dora Diamant] (🎭)

•The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Lillian Nayder [Catherine Thomson Hogarth Dickens] (✏️)

•Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Wolff [Emily Elizabeth Dickinson] (SSA, ✏️)

•Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman [Baroness Karen Chistenze Dinesen von Blixen-Finecke, "Isak Dinesen"] (✏️)

•Emily Donelson of Tennessee by Pauline Wilcox Burke [Emily Donelson]

• The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky by Andrew Kaufman 🧔 [Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina Dostoevskaya] (✏️)

•I, Livia: The Counterfeit Criminal by Mary Mudd [Livia Drusilla] (👑)

•Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne Du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay [Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning] (SSA, ✏️)

•My Life by Isadora Duncan [Angela Isadora Duncan] (SSA, Dancer)

•Eleonora Duse: A Biography by Helen Sheehy [Eleonora Giulia Amalia Duse] (SSA, 🎭)

•East to Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler [Amelia Mary Earhart] (🛩)

•Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life by Amy Aronson [Crystal Catherine Eastman] (Activist, Lawyer)

•Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady by Marilyn Holt [Mary Geneva Doud Eisenhower]

•The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir [Elizabeth the I of England] (👑)

•Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley [Empress Matilda of England] (👑)

•Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgerald by Geoffrey Mark [Ella Jane Fitzgerald] (WOC, 🎙)

•Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford [Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald] (✏️)

•Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel [Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Dauphine of France] (👑)

•The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret Rosenthal [Veronica Franco] (Activist, ✏️)

•Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox [Rosalind Elsie Franklin] (🧬)

•Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore [Jane Franklin Mecom]

•The Lives of Margaret Fuller: A Biography by John Matteson 🧔 [Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli] (Activist, Journalist)

•Indira Gandhi: A Biography by Pupul Jayakar [Indira Priyadarshini Nehru Gandhi] (WOC, Prime Minister)

•Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections by Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin [Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin] (Astronomer)

•Garbo by Robert Gottlieb 🧔 [Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, "Greta Garbo"] (SSA, 🎥)

•Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Ben Montgomery 🧔 [Emma Rowena Caldwell Gatewood] (Hiker)

•Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis [Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau] (Socialite)

•Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead [Martha Ellis Gellhorn] (Journalist)

•Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Jane Lancaster [Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth] (Psychologist, Engineer)

•Jane Goodall: The Woman who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson 🧔 [Dame Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall] (🐵)

•Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham by Agnes de Mille [Martha Graham] (Dancer)

•Personal History by Katherine Graham [Katherine Meyer Graham] (Publisher)

•The General's Wife: The Life of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant by Ishbel Ross [Julia Boggs Dent Grant]

•Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers 🧔 [Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg, Princess of Greece and Denmark] (👑)

•Caty: A Biography of Catherine Littlefield Greene by John F. Stegeman 🧔 and Janet A. Stegeman [Catherine Littlefield Greene Miller] (Inventor)

•Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen by Alison Plowden [Lady Jane Grey] (👑)

•Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle by Janet Guthrie [Janet Guthrie] (🏎)

•A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell [Virginia Hall] (Espionage Agent)

•England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton by Kate Williams [Dame Amy Emma Lyon Hamilton] (Maid)

•Lady in the Navy: A Personal Reminiscence by Joy Bright Hancock [Joy Bright Hancock] (Warrant Officer)

•Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber [Ruth Marianna Mosko Handler] (Business Woman)

•First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy by Katherine A. S. Sibley [Florence Mabel Kling Harding]

•Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer [Anne Hathaway]

•The Woman Who Would be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney [Hatshepsut] (WOC, 👑)

•Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian 🧔 [Mary Welsh Hemingway] (Journalist)

•Queen of Ice, Queen of Shadows: The Unsuspected Life of Sonja Henie by Leif Henie 🧔 and Raymond Strait 🧔 [Sonja Henie] (⛸️)

•Katherine Hepburn by Grace May Carter [Katherine Houghton Hepburn] (🎥)

•Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life by Georgina Ferry [Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin] (Chemist)

•Grace Hooper and the Invention of the Information Age by Kurt Beyer 🧔 [Grace Brewster Murray Hooper] (Computer Scientist, Navy Admiral)

•Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady by Nancy Beck Young [Lou Henry Hoover] (Activist, Linguist)

•A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford [Whitney Elizabeth Houston] (WOC, SSA, 🎤)

•Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII by Gareth Russell 🧔 [Catherine Howard] (👑)

•The Woman Who Mapped Labrador: The Life and Expedition Diary of Mina Hubbard by Mina Benson Hubbard [Mina Benson Hubbard] (Explorer)

•The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn J. Westerkamp [Anne Marbury Hutchinson] (Minister)

•Geisha of Gion: Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki by Mineko Iwasaki and Rande Gail Brown [Mineko Iwasaki] (WOC, Former Geisha,✏️)

•Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin [Shirley Hardie Jackson] (✏️)

•Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson [Katherine Johnson] (WOC, Mathematician)

•Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson by Jan Jarboe Russell [Claudia Atla Taylor Johnson] (Environmentalist)

•Nora: A Biography of Nora Joyce by Brenda Maddox [Nora Barnacle Joyce] (✏️)

•Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera [Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón] (WOC, SSA, 🎨)

•The Original Million Dollar Mermaid: The Annette Kellerman Story by Barbara Firth and Emily Gibson [Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman] (🏊‍♀️)

•Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson [Rose Marie Kennedy]

•Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter by Barbara Leaming [Kathleen Agnes Kennedy Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington] (Socialite)

•Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World by Eileen McNamara [Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver] (Disability Rights Activist)

•Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Edythe Scott Bagley and Joe Hilley 🧔 [Coretta Scott King] (WOC, Activist, ✏️)

•The Queen Mother: The Official Biography by William Shawcross 🧔 [Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, Queen of the United Kingdom] (👑)

•Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro and Patricia Weiss Levy [Eartha Mae Keith Kitt] (WOC, Activist, 🎙, 🎥)

•Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Tale of Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester by Nicola Tallis [Lettice Knollys, Countess of Leicester and Essex] (👑)

•The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot [Loretta Pleasant Lacks, Deborah Lacks Pullum] (WOC)

•Madame Lalaurie: Mistress of the Haunted House by Carolyn Morrow Long [Marie Delphine Macarty Lalaurie] (Serial Killer)

•Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton [Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, "Hedy Lamarr"] (Inventor, 📽)

•Marie Antoinette's Confidante: The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe by Geri Walton [Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe] (Aristocrat)

•Harriet Lane, America's First Lady by Milton Stern 🧔 [Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston]

•Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon [Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn] (📷)

•In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line by George B. Hutchinson 🧔 [Nellallitea Walker Larsen] (WOC, ✏️)

•Rani Laxmibai: Warrior Queen of Jhansi by Pratibha Ranade [Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi] (WOC, 👑, 🗡)

•Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward [Marie Catherine Laveau] (WOC, Herbalist)

•The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency by Kathryn Smith [Marguerite Alice LeHand] (Secretary)

•Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine Ida Lewis by Lenore Skomal [Idawalley Zoradia Lewis] (Lighthouse Keeper)

•Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography by Jean H. Baker [Mary Ann Todd Lincoln]

•Anne Marrow Lindbergh: Her Life by Susan Hertog [Anne Spencer Marrow Lindbergh] (✏️, 🛩)

•Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser 🧔 [Clarice Lispector] (✏️)

•Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery [Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth] (Socialite, ✏️)

•Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux [Audrey Geraldine Lorde] (WOC, SSA, Activist, ✏️)

•Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist by Adrian Clifford Rice 🧔, Christopher Hollings 🧔, and Ursula Martin [Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace] (Mathematician)

•Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of Girl Scouts by Stacy A. Cordery [Juliette Gordon Low] (Founder of Girl Scouts)

•Rosa Luxemburg by Dana Mills [Rosa Luxemburg] (Anti-War Activist)

•A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation by Catherine Allgor [Dolley Payne Todd Madison]

•Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob [Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela] (WOC, Activist, Politician)

•Terrible Typoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti [Mary Mallon] (🍲)

•Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller [Wilma Pearl Mankiller] (WOC, Activist)

•Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham by Mary S. Lovell [Beryl Markham] (🛩)

•Eleanor Marx: A Life by Rachel Holmes [Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx] (Translator)

•Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime [Elise Meitner] (Physicist)

•Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis by Kim Todd [Maria Sibylla Merian] (Naturalist)

•Ynes Mexia: Botanist and Adventurer by Durlynn Anema [Ynés Enriquetta Julietta Mexía] (WOC, 🌸)

•Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition by Madeline Mary Henry [Aspasia of Miletus] (Teacher)

•Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford [Edna St. Vincent Millay] (SSA, ✏️)

•Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Millholland by Linda J. Lumsden [Inez Millholland Boissevain] (Activist)

•I Am Melba: A Biography by Ann Blainey [Dame Helen Porter Mitchell, "Nellie Melba"] (Opera Singer)

•Road to Tara: The Life of Margaret Mitchell by Anne Edwards [Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell] (✏️)

•Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox by Lois Banner [Norma Jean Mortensen, "Marilyn Monroe"] (🎥)

•Inge Morath: An Illustrated Biography by Linda Gordon [Ingeborg Hermine Morath] (📷)

•Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan 🧔 [Mary Sherman Morgan] (Engineer)

•Shirley Muldowney's Tales from the Track by Shirley Muldowney [Shirley Muldowney] (🏎)

•Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff [Véra Yevseyevna Nabokova] (Editor)

•Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse by Catherine Reef [Florence Nightingale] (Statistician)

•Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady by Mary Brennan [Thelma Catherine Nixon]

•The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton by Diane Atkinson [Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Sterling Maxwell] (Activist, ✏️)

•Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great by Elizabeth Carney

•Grace O'Malley: The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen by Anne Chambers [Grace O'Malley] (🏴‍☠️)

•Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: The Untold Story by Barbara Leaming [Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis]

•Oona, Living in the Shadows by Jane Scovell [Oona O'Neil, Lady Chaplin] (📽)

•The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell by Hilary Spurling [Sonia Mary Brownell Orwell] (Archivist)

•Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp [Eileen Maud O'Shaughnessy Blair]

•Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade [Dorothy Rothschild Parker] (✏️)

•The Rebellious Life Mrs. Rosa Parks by Jeanne Theoharis [Rosa Louise McCauley Parks] (WOC, Activist)

•Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr by Linda Porter [Katherine Parr] (👑)

•Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical by Jacqueline Jones [Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Carter Parsons] (WOC, Activist)

•The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara [Mildred Elizabeth Fulvia di Rossi Trent] (Special Effects Desinger)

•Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson by Amanda Smith [Eleanor Josephine Medill Patterson, Countess Gizycki] (Journalist, Newspaper Editor)

•A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton [Alice Stokes Paul] (Activist)

•Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko [Lyudmila Mikhailovna Belova Pavlichenko] (Sniper)

•Anna Pavlova: Twentieth Century Ballerina by Caroline Hamilton and Jane Pritchard [Anna Matveyevna Pavlova] (Dancer)

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Daughters of the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne, part I

Judith de Flandre, Countess of Northumbria and Herzogin von Bayern. Daughter of Baudouin IV, comte de Flandre and Aenor de Normandie. Grandmother of Judith von Bayern, Herzogin von Schwaben.

Mathilde de Flandre, Queen of England. Daughter of Baudouin V, comte de Flandre and Adèle de France. Mother of Constance de Normandie, dugez Breizh and Adèle de Normandie, comtesse de Blois.

Mathilde de Boulogne, Queen of England. Daughter of Eustache III, comte de Boulogne and Moire of Scotland. Mother of Marie Ire, comtesse de Boulogne.

Gertrude de Flandre, contessa de Savoia. Daughter of Thierry, comte de Flandre and Sibylle d’Anjou.

Marguerite Ire, comtesse de Flandre. Daughter of Thierry, comte de Flandre and Sibylle d’Anjou. Mother of Isabelle de Hainaut, Yolande de Hainaut, and Sibylle de Hainaut

Isabelle de Hainaut, reine de France. Daughter of Marguerite Ire, comtesse de Flandre and Baudouin V, comte de Hainaut. Grandmother of Saint Isabelle de France.

Yolande de Hainaut, markgravin van Namen. Daughter of Marguerite Ire, comtesse de Flandre and Baudouin V, comte de Hainaut. Mother of Isabelle de Courtenay, Tsarina of Bulgaria; Yolande de Courtenay, Queen consort of Hungary; and Marie de Courtenay, Empress of Nicaea.

Sibylle de Hainaut, Dame de Beaujeu. Daughter of Marguerite Ire, comtesse de Flandre and Baudouin V, comte de Hainaut. Mother of Agnès de Beaujeu, comtesse de Champagne.

Jehanne, comtesse de Flandre. Daughter of Baudouin IX, comte de Flandre and Marie de Champagne.

Marguerite II, comtesse de Flandre. Daughter of Baudouin IX, comte de Flandre and Marie de Champagne. Mother of Jehanne de Dampierre, comtesse de Rethel.

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cruger2984 · 6 years ago

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Persona Characters and its Saints PT.4

Oh, hello again. Because today’s Maya’s birthday. As we continue this series, It's time for the heroes from Persona 2: Innocent Sin and its sequel, Eternal Punishment.

[--Innocent Sin--]

2/14: Jun Kurosu

His birthday is shared with St. Valentine, a bishop who is martyred by orders of Emperor Claudius II. He is known as the patron of love, happy marriages, and beekeepers. It also shares with Sts. Cyril and Methodius, two brothers who were Byzantine Christian theologians and Christian missionaries in which they receive the title 'Apostles to the Slavs.' In 1980, St. John Paul II declared the brothers co-patron saints of Europe together with St. Benedict.

5/4: Lisa 'Ginko' Silverman

Lisa's birthday is co-incide with St. Florian, a officer of the Roman army who is martyred during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. Many miracles of healing are attributed to his intercession and he is invoked as a powerful protector in danger from fire or water. That is because Florian is the patron saint of firefighters.

7/4: Maya Amano

Her birthday shares with two of them - St. Elizabeth of Aragon and Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati. Elizabeth is a queen and wife of King Denis the Poet King. After her husband's death, she retired to the Poor Clare monastery and joined the Franciscan order, devoting the rest of her life to the poor and sick in obscurity. Elizabeth has a great-niece, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Pier is a layman, social activist and a member from the Dominican order. After his death due to polio in 1925 at 24 years of age, he was called 'Man of Eight Beatitudes' by St. John Paul II, who beatified him on May 1990.

7/27: Tatsuya Suou

Tatsuya, aka the hero of Innocent Sin is shared with the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. According to Christian and Islamic tradition, it is the story of a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus around 250 AD to escape a religious persecution and emerge 300 years later. The Roman Martyrology mentions the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus under this date.

11/16: Eikichi 'Michel' Mishina

His birthday is shared with St. Gertrude the Great, a nun, virgin, theologian and mystic from the Benedictine order. She produced numerous writings, though only some survive today. The longest survival is the Legatus Memorialis Abundantiae Divinae Pietatis (The Herald of God's Loving-Kindness) that is partly written by other nuns. She is the patron saint of the West Indies and she is often invoked for souls in purgatory.

[--Eternal Punishment--]

6/13: Baofu (Kaoru Saga)

His birthday is shared with one of the most celebrated saints and my friend's favorite - St. Anthony of Padua. He is a friar from the Order of Friars Minor (aka the Franciscans) and is the patron of lost items and lost articles. Noted by his contemporaries for his powerful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was one of the most quickly canonized saints in the history of the church. Anthony has three nicknames - the 'Evangelical Doctor', the 'Hammer of Heretics', and 'Professor of Miracles'. One of the most famous attributes to this saint is holding a infant Christ in his arms.

11/30: Ulala Serizawa

Her birthday is co-incide with St. Andrew, who in the Orthodox tradition as the First-Called (Protokletos). He is the brother of St. Peter and is one of the twelve apostles of Christ. He and Peter were both called together to become disciples of Jesus and "fishers of men". He brought to Jesus' attention the boy with the loaves and fishes when they were multiplied. He was present at the Last Supper and preached the Gospel in Greece and Turkey. After the Lord's ascension, Andrew was later receive the crown of martyrdom in a saltire cross (later called St. Andrew's Cross) in Patras. He is the patron of Scotland and Romania, as well as fishermen and fishmongers.

12/30: Katsuya Suou

The detective big brother of Tatsuya shares his birthday with Pope St. Felix I. Elected as Pope in the year 269, succeeding Pope Dionysius, he was the author of an important dogmatic letter on the unity of Christ's Person. He received the emperor Aurelian's aid in settling a theological dispute between the anti-Trinitarian Paul of Samosata, the deposed bishop of Antioch, and the orthodox Domnus, Paul's successor.

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16th November >> Saints of the Day for Roman Catholics: Saint Margaret of Scotland & Saint Gertrude.

Saint Margaret of Scotland

Margaret (c. 1045-1093) was an English princess of the House of Wessex, though born in exile in Hungary. She and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 she married Malcolm III and became queen of Scotland. Among many charitable works Margaret established a ferry (“Queensferry”) for pilgrims travelling to Dunfermline Abbey. Se died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093.

Saint Gertrude

Gertrude of Helfta (1256 – 1302) was a German Benedictine, mystic, and theologian. At the age of twenty-five, when she experienced the first of a series of visions, her priorities shifted from secular knowledge and toward the study of Scripture and theology. She devoted herself to prayer and meditation, and began writing spiritual treatises for her monastic sisters. With her friend and teacher Saint Mechtild, Gertrude practiced a spirituality of “nuptial mysticism,” seeing herself as the bride of Christ.

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Catholic Daily Readings + Reflection: 16 November 2020 - What Do You Want Me To Do For You

Readings at Mass for Monday November 16, 2020

Weekday (33) ordinary Time Vestment: Green Today’s Rosary: The Joyful Mystery SAINT MARGARET OF SCOTLAND (Opt. Mem) SAINT GERTRUDE, Virgin (Opt. Mem)

FIRST READING

“Remember from what you have fallen, and repent. ” The beginning of the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1 : 1-4; 2: 1-5a) The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne. [I heard the Lord saying to me:] “To the angel of the Church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lamp stands. “'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them to be false; I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember then from what you have fallen, repent and do the works you did at first.”’ The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 1:1-2.3.4 and 6 (R. Revelation 2:7b)

R/. To him who conquers, I will grant to eat of the tree of life. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Blessed indeed is the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the path with sinners, nor abides in the company of scorners, but whose delight is the law of the Lord, and who ponders his law day and night. R. He is like a tree that is planted beside the flowing waters, that yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves shall never fade; and all that he does shall prosper. R. Not so are the wicked, not so! For they, like winnowed chaff, shall be driven away by the wind. For the Lord knows the way of the just, but the way of the wicked will perish. R.

ALLELUIA John 8:12

Alleluia. I am the light of the world, says the Lord; he who follows me will have the light of life. Alleluia.

GOSPEL

“What do you want me to do for you? Lord, let me receive my sight.” A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (Luke 18:35-43) It happened that, as Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging; and hearing a multitude going by, he inquired what this meant. They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.” And he cried, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” And Jesus stopped, and commanded him to be brought to him; and when he came near, he asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me receive my sight.” And Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God; and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. The Gospel of the Lord. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

Today’s Reflection

Insistence in seeking God does not go unrewarded. This is demonstrated by the encounter of the blind man with Jesus. The blind man recognized Jesus and acknowledged his ability to restore his sight. This challenges us to examine the quality of our faith in the power of Christ to transform our lives positively. It also encourages us to recognize the moment of grace and not to allow it to pass us by. Today's Saints: SAINT MARGARET OF SCOTLAND (Opt. Mem) Margaret was born in 1046 in Hungary where her father was exiled from England. Later, the family returned to England and, in 1070, she was given in marriage to Malcolm III, king of the Scots. She was a good and caring mother of eight children as well as a great queen, devoting her time, energy and resources to the poor. She died in the year 1093. SAINT GERTRUDE, Virgin (Opt. Mem) Gertrude was one of the great mystics of the thirteenth century. She was born in Saxony in the year 1256 and later joined the Cistercian Abbey of Helfta where she lived the whole of her life. At the age of 25 she started having revelations and visions and wrote extensively about them. Devoting her life to God, she dedicated herself to the pursuit of perfection, and gave herself over to prayer and contemplation. She died in 1301.

Personal Devotional

- Pray for mercy for the times you have sought self-glorification in charitable deeds. - Pray for forgiveness for the times you failed to show love to your neighbour. - Tell God to show you a need in someone’s life that He wants you to help out with. - Tell God to enlarge your heart to love more and more people irrespective of their background.

Let Us Pray

Gracious and holy Father, please give me intellect to understand you, reason to discern you; diligence to seek you; wisdom to find you; a spirit to know you; a heart to meditate upon you; ears to hear you; eyes to see you; a tongue to proclaim you; a way of life pleasing to you; patience to wait for you; and perseverance to look for you. Grant me: a perfect end, your holy presence. A blessed resurrection, and life everlasting. Amen

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@friregent

“Be careful, Kristina.” Her voice was filled with worry, as Elisabeth looked up from her needlework. “My own mother died because she held more power than the men around her agreed to. They murdered their own queen in cold blood for that.” Even though she barely remembered Gertrude of Hungary - learning of her violent end had deepy shaked Elisabeth and she wished to protect the young girl from a similar fate.

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SAINT OF THE DAY (November 17)

On November 17, the Catholic Church celebrates the life and example of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, a medieval noblewoman who responded to personal tragedy by embracing St. Francis' ideals of poverty and service.

A patron of secular Franciscans, she is especially beloved to Germans as well as the faithful of her native Hungary.

As the daughter of Hungarian King Andrew II (c. 1177 – 21 September 1235), Elizabeth had the responsibilities of royalty thrust upon her almost as soon as her short life began in 1207.

While she was still very young, Elizabeth's father arranged for her to be married to a German nobleman, Ludwig of Thuringia.

The plan forced Elizabeth to separate from her parents while still a child. Adding to this sorrow was the murder of Elizabeth's mother Gertrude of Merania (c. 1185 – 28 September 1213), which history ascribed to a conflict between her own German people and the Hungarian nobles.

Elizabeth took a solemn view of life and death from that point on, and found consolation in prayer. Both tendencies drew some ire from her royal peers.

For a time, beginning in 1221, she was happily married. Ludwig, who had advanced to become one of the rulers of Thuringia, supported Elizabeth's efforts to live out the principles of the Gospel even within the royal court.

She met with friars of the nascent Franciscan order during its founder's own lifetime, resolving to use her position as queen to advance their mission of charity.

Remarkably, Ludwig agreed with his wife's resolution, and the politically powerful couple embraced a life of remarkable generosity toward the poor.

They had three children, two of whom went on to live as as members of the nobility, although one of them –her only son– died relatively young.

The third eventually entered religious life and became abbess of a German convent.

In 1226, while Ludwig was attending to political affairs in Italy, Elizabeth took charge of distributing aid to victims of disease and flooding that struck Thuringia.

She took charge of caring for the afflicted, even when this required giving up the royal family's own clothes and goods.

Elizabeth arranged for a hospital to be built and was said to have provided for the needs of nearly a thousand desperately poor people on a daily basis.

The next year, however, would put Elizabeth's faith to the test. Her husband had promised to assist the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sixth Crusade, but he died of illness en route to Jerusalem.

Devastated by Ludwig's death, Elizabeth vowed never to remarry. Her children were sent away and relatives heavily pressured her to break the vow.

Undeterred, Elizabeth used her remaining money to build another hospital, where she personally attended to the sick almost constantly.

Sending away her servants, she joined the Third Order of St. Francis, seeking to emulate the example of its founder as closely as her responsibilities would allow.

Near the end of her life, she lived in a small hut and spun her own clothes.

Working continually with the severely ill, Elizabeth became sick herself, dying of illness in November of 1231.

After she died, miraculous healings soon began to occur at her grave near the hospital.

She was canonized by Pope Gregory IX on 24 May 1235.

Pope Benedict XVI has praised her as a “model for those in authority,” noting the continuity between her personal love for God, and her public work on behalf of the poor and sick.

Patronage: Bakers; beggars; brides; charitable societies; charitable workers; charities; countesses; death of children; exiles; falsely accused people; hoboes; homeless people; hospitals; in-law problems; lacemakers; lace workers; nursing homes; nursing services; people in exile; people ridiculed for their piety; Sisters of Mercy; tertiaries; Teutonic Knights; toothache; tramps; widows.

Representation: A queen distributing alms; woman wearing a crown and tending to beggars; woman wearing a crown; holding a basket of bread; carrying a load of roses in her apron or mantle.

Elizabeth of Hungary

(7 July 1207 – 17 November 1231)

#Saint of the Day #St. Elizabeth of Hungary #Third Order of St. Francis

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brookston · 2 years ago

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Holidays 8.13

Holidays

Blame Someone Else Day

Daughter’s Day

Festival of the Volcano (Antigua, Guatemala)

Greyhound Bus Day

International Left-Hander’s Day

Lao Issara (Day of the Free Laos; Laos)

National Baseball Card Day

Patriot’s Day (Manipur, India)

Roller Derby Day

Skinny Dipping Day

South Park Day

Wall Day (Berlin, Germany)

Women’s Day (Tunisia)

World Organ Donation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Filet Mignon Day

National Prosecco Day

2nd Saturday in August

Bud Billiken Parade (Chicago, Illinois) [2nd Saturday]

Celebrate Your Lakes Day (New Hampshire) [2nd Saturday]

Ferry Fair Day (Edinburgh, Scotland) [2nd Saturday]

Great Taste of the Midwest (Wisconsin) [2nd Saturday]

National Bowling Day [2nd Saturday]

National Garage Sale Day [2nd Saturday]

National Model Aviation Day [2nd Saturday]

Yard Sale Day [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Central African Republic (from France, 1960)

Feast Days

Benedetto Sinigardi (Christian; Saint)

Benildus Romançon (Christian; Saint)

Centola and Helen (Christian; Saint)

Cassian of Imola (Christian; Saint)

Clara Maass (Lutheran Church)

Concordia (Christian; Saint)

Day of Hekate (Spirit of Life, Death, Regeneration & Magic; Italy)

Fachtna of Rosscarbery (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Huitzilopochtls (Aztec)

Festival of Aventine Diana (Ancient Rome)

Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill (Lutheran Church)

Hercules Victori (Ancient Rome)

Herulph (Christian; Saint)

Hippolytus of Rome (Christian; Saint)

Jeremy Taylor (Anglican Communion)

John Berchmans (Christian; Saint)

Junian of Mairé (Christian; Saint)

Listen to Reggae Day (Pastafarian)

Marco d'Aviano (Christian; Blessed)

Marco Polo (Positivist; Saint)

Maximus the Confessor (Christian; Saint)

Nerses Glaietsi (Catholic Church)

Pomona’s Day (Apple Festival) [also 11.1]

Pontian, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Prospero Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Radegundes, Queen of France (Christian; Saint)

Self Love Day (Pastafarian)

The Vertumnalia (Festival of Vertumnus)

Wigbert (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Baby Love, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1964)

Bambi (Animated Disney Film; 1942)

Bonnie and Clyde (Film; 1967)

Bowfinger (Film; 1999)

Californication (TV Series; 2007)

District 9 (Film; 2009)

Du Barry Was a Lady (Film; 1943)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Film; 1982)

Free Guy (Film; 2021)

Help!, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

Hound Dog, by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton recorded (Song; 1952)

Lynyrd Skynyrd, by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Album; 1973)

An Officer and a Gentleman (Film; 1982)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Film; 2010)

Tropic Thunder (Film; 2008)

Today’s Name Days

Gertrude, Marco (Austria)

Gertruda, Hipolit, Patricija, Poncijan (Croatia)

Alena (Czech Republic)

Hippolytus (Denmark)

Teedo, Teedu, Teet, Teetlev, Teeto (Estonia)

Jesse, Okko (Finland)

Hippolyte (France)

Cassian, Hippolyt, Marko (Germany)

Ipoly (Hungary)

Ippolito (Italy)

Elvīra, Velga (Latvia)

Diana, Gilvilė, Ipolitas, Naglis (Lithuania)

Anine, Ann, Anny (Norway)

Diana, Dianna, Gertruda, Helena, Hipolit, Hipolita, Jan, Kasjan, Radomiła, Wojbor (Poland)

Ľubomír (Slovakia)

Hipólito (Spain)

Kaj (Sweden)

Rad, Radella, Radford, Radley, Wilmer (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 225 of 2022; 140 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 32 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Lányuè), Day 16 (Wu-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 16 Av 5782

Islamic: 15 Muharram 1444

J Cal: 15 Hasa; Sunday [15 of 30]

Julian: 31 July 2022

Moon: 96% Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Marco Polo]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 54 of 90)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 22 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Gutenberg (Modern Industry) [Month 9 of 13; Positivist]

#calendar #Holidays

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brookstonalmanac · 2 years ago

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Holidays 8.13

Holidays

Blame Someone Else Day

Daughter’s Day

Festival of the Volcano (Antigua, Guatemala)

Greyhound Bus Day

International Left-Hander’s Day

Lao Issara (Day of the Free Laos; Laos)

National Baseball Card Day

Patriot’s Day (Manipur, India)

Roller Derby Day

Skinny Dipping Day

South Park Day

Wall Day (Berlin, Germany)

Women’s Day (Tunisia)

World Organ Donation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Filet Mignon Day

National Prosecco Day

2nd Saturday in August

Bud Billiken Parade (Chicago, Illinois) [2nd Saturday]

Celebrate Your Lakes Day (New Hampshire) [2nd Saturday]

Ferry Fair Day (Edinburgh, Scotland) [2nd Saturday]

Great Taste of the Midwest (Wisconsin) [2nd Saturday]

National Bowling Day [2nd Saturday]

National Garage Sale Day [2nd Saturday]

National Model Aviation Day [2nd Saturday]

Yard Sale Day [2nd Saturday]

Independence Days

Central African Republic (from France, 1960)

Feast Days

Benedetto Sinigardi (Christian; Saint)

Benildus Romançon (Christian; Saint)

Centola and Helen (Christian; Saint)

Cassian of Imola (Christian; Saint)

Clara Maass (Lutheran Church)

Concordia (Christian; Saint)

Day of Hekate (Spirit of Life, Death, Regeneration & Magic; Italy)

Fachtna of Rosscarbery (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Huitzilopochtls (Aztec)

Festival of Aventine Diana (Ancient Rome)

Florence Nightingale, Octavia Hill (Lutheran Church)

Hercules Victori (Ancient Rome)

Herulph (Christian; Saint)

Hippolytus of Rome (Christian; Saint)

Jeremy Taylor (Anglican Communion)

John Berchmans (Christian; Saint)

Junian of Mairé (Christian; Saint)

Listen to Reggae Day (Pastafarian)

Marco d'Aviano (Christian; Blessed)

Marco Polo (Positivist; Saint)

Maximus the Confessor (Christian; Saint)

Nerses Glaietsi (Catholic Church)

Pomona’s Day (Apple Festival) [also 11.1]

Pontian, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Prospero Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Radegundes, Queen of France (Christian; Saint)

Self Love Day (Pastafarian)

The Vertumnalia (Festival of Vertumnus)

Wigbert (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Baby Love, recorded by The Supremes (Song; 1964)

Bambi (Animated Disney Film; 1942)

Bonnie and Clyde (Film; 1967)

Bowfinger (Film; 1999)

Californication (TV Series; 2007)

District 9 (Film; 2009)

Du Barry Was a Lady (Film; 1943)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Film; 1982)

Free Guy (Film; 2021)

Help!, by The Beatles (Album; 1965)

Hound Dog, by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton recorded (Song; 1952)

Lynyrd Skynyrd, by Lynyrd Skynyrd (Album; 1973)

An Officer and a Gentleman (Film; 1982)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Film; 2010)

Tropic Thunder (Film; 2008)

Today’s Name Days

Gertrude, Marco (Austria)

Gertruda, Hipolit, Patricija, Poncijan (Croatia)

Alena (Czech Republic)

Hippolytus (Denmark)

Teedo, Teedu, Teet, Teetlev, Teeto (Estonia)

Jesse, Okko (Finland)

Hippolyte (France)

Cassian, Hippolyt, Marko (Germany)

Ipoly (Hungary)

Ippolito (Italy)

Elvīra, Velga (Latvia)

Diana, Gilvilė, Ipolitas, Naglis (Lithuania)

Anine, Ann, Anny (Norway)

Diana, Dianna, Gertruda, Helena, Hipolit, Hipolita, Jan, Kasjan, Radomiła, Wojbor (Poland)

Ľubomír (Slovakia)

Hipólito (Spain)

Kaj (Sweden)

Rad, Radella, Radford, Radley, Wilmer (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 225 of 2022; 140 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 32 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Lányuè), Day 16 (Wu-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 16 Av 5782

Islamic: 15 Muharram 1444

J Cal: 15 Hasa; Sunday [15 of 30]

Julian: 31 July 2022

Moon: 96% Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Marco Polo]

Runic Half Month: As (Gods) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 54 of 90)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 22 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Gutenberg (Modern Industry) [Month 9 of 13; Positivist]

#Holidays

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iprayunceasingly-blog · 6 years ago

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St. Elizabeth of Hungary

New Post has been published on https://pray-unceasingly.com/catholic-living/saint-of-the-day/st-elizabeth-of-hungary/

St. Elizabeth of Hungary

On Nov. 17, the Catholic Church celebrates the life and example of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, a medieval noblewoman who responded to personal tragedy by embracing St. Francis’ ideals of poverty and service. A patron of secular Franciscans, she is especially beloved to Germans, as well as the faithful of her native Hungary.As the daughter of the Hungarian King Andrew II, Elizabeth had the responsibilities of royalty thrust upon her almost as soon as her short life began in 1207. While she was still very young, Elizabeth’s father arranged for her to be married to a German nobleman, Ludwig of Thuringia.The plan forced Elizabeth to separate from her parents while still a child. Adding to this sorrow was the murder of Elizabeth’s mother Gertrude in 1213, which history ascribes to a conflict between her own German people and the Hungarian nobles. Elizabeth took a solemn view of life and death from that point on, and found consolation in prayer. Both tendencies drew some ire from her royal peers.For a time, beginning in 1221, she was happily married. Ludwig, who had advanced to become one of the rulers of Thuringia, supported Elizabeth’s efforts to live out the principles of the Gospel even within the royal court. She met with friars of the nascent Franciscan order during its founder’s own lifetime, resolving to use her position as queen to advance their mission of charity.Remarkably, Ludwig agreed with his wife’s resolution, and the politically powerful couple embraced a life of remarkable generosity toward the poor. They had three children, two of whom went on to live as as members of the nobility, although one of them â€“her only sonâ€“ died relatively young. The third eventually entered religious life and became abbess of a German convent.In 1226, while Ludwig was attending to political affairs in Italy, Elizabeth took charge of distributing aid to victims of disease and flooding that struck Thuringia. She took charge of caring for the afflicted, even when this required giving up the royal family’s own clothes and goods. Elizabeth arranged for a hospital to be built, and is said to have provided for the needs of nearly a thousand desperately poor people on a daily basis.The next year, however, would put Elizabeth’s faith to the test. Her husband had promised to assist the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sixth Crusade, but he died of illness en route to Jerusalem. Devastated by Ludwig’s death, Elizabeth vowed never to remarry. Her children were sent away, and relatives heavily pressured her to break the vow.Undeterred, Elizabeth used her remaining money to build another hospital, where she personally attended to the sick almost constantly. Sending away her servants, she joined the Third Order of St. Francis, seeking to emulate the example of its founder as closely as her responsibilities would allow. Near the end of her life, she lived in a small hut and spun her own clothes.Working continually with the severely ill, Elizabeth became sick herself, dying of illness in November of 1231. After she died, miraculous healings soon began to occur at her grave near the hospital, and she was declared a saint only four years later.Pope Benedict XVI has praised her as a â€œmodel for those in authority,â€� noting the continuity between her personal love for God, and her public work on behalf of the poor and sick. Patronage: Bakers; beggars; brides; charitable societies; charitable workers; charities; countesses; death of children; exiles; falsely accused people; hoboes; homeless people; hospitals; in-law problems; lacemakers; lace workers; nursing homes; nursing services; people in exile; people ridiculed for their piety; Sisters of Mercy; tertiaries; Teutonic Knights; toothache; tramps; widows.Representation: A queen distributing alms; woman wearing a crown and tending to beggars; woman wearing a crown, carrying a load of roses in her apron or mantle.Â CNA – Saint of the Day

#Elizabeth #Hungary #Saint of the Day

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ruminativerabbi · 7 years ago

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Queen Gertrude Visits the Sejm

When Queen Gertrude famously tells Hamlet that “the lady doth protest too much, methinks” she thinks (or rather, shethinks) she is innocently commenting on a plot twist in the play-within-a-play that Hamlet has produced to see how his Uncle Claudius—whom Hamlet suspects of having murdered his own brother, Hamlet’s father, before marrying Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother—to see how his uncle responds to seeing a fratricide openly and brutally depicted on stage. Or, at any rate, that’s what we are meant to think that Gertrude thinks she’s doing. But, of course, the audience knows better, seeing easily that her response clearly (if surely also unintentionally) confirms the worst of Hamlet’s fears. And, so, although everybody knows melancholy Jaques’ line in As You Like It to the effect that “all the world’s a stage,” here the tables are effectively turned and it’s the stage that’s the world…and in Gertrude’s remark lies the truth depicted on that stage that Shakespeare wishes to impart to the audience through the medium of his great talent: that our words towards others almost always reveal more about our inner selves than we can perceive. We think we’re taunting someone else…but we are really revealing our inmost insecurities. We think we’re castigating someone else’s poor behavior, but what we are really doing is attempting to deflect the world’s attention away from ourselves and our own poor behavior. We think we are attacking our enemies with clever, biting insults, but what we are really doing is showing the world precisely which part of ourselves is the most vulnerable…and the most in need of defending from other people’s clever, biting insults. And that latter point is made even more acutely when the enemies against who we purport to be defending ourselves so vigorously are nowhere actually to be seen and appear to exist entirely, or at least mostly, within our own heads.

These were the thoughts that came to me as I read the reports of the controversy stirred up both in the Jewish and the non-Jewish world by the vote by both houses of the Polish parliament, the Sejm and the Senate, last week making it a criminal offense to refer to the concentration and extermination camps built and maintained by Germany on Polish soil after conquering Poland in 1939 as “Polish death camps” or to suggest, apparently in any way at all including as part of scholarly research or even en passant orally, that “the Polish nation or the Polish state [was in any way] responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich.” The bill hasn’t become law yet. Having passed the Sejm and the Senate, to become the law of the land it must now be signed into law by the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda.

Reading the initial news reports brought Queen Gertrude right to mind and prompted me to wonder why they were protesting so much over an issue that, at least as far as I can see, doesn’t exist at all. The Shoah is the backdrop to my life in every imaginable way. No one, if I may be permitted a bit of hyperbole, has read more books, including specifically memoirs by survivors and non-survivors, than I have. (In that latter category, I should mention that I’ve just finished Sam Solasz’s book, Angel of the Ghetto, which I liked very much and recommend.) It’s the rare day that I do not have some contact either with a survivor of the Shoah or with someone who self-identifies as a second- or third-generation descendant of such a person. I haven’t attended Shabbat services, maybe ever, in a room in which there were no survivors of the Holocaust, and I include in that thought both the synagogue of my youth, the shul we frequent in Jerusalem, and all three congregations that I have served over my almost forty years in the rabbinate. And yet I don’t believe I have ever heard anyone refer to Treblinka or Auschwitz as “Polish death camps.” For one thing, why would anyone shift the blame from the perpetrator nation to one of its slave states? For another, is there anyone in the world who actually thinks the Poles built and managed the camps on its soil while millions were slaughtered there in the course of the Second World War? So, if no one talks that way and no one thinks that, what are the Poles so exercised about?

There are, of course, people who place at least part of the blame for the slaughter on the heads of the citizens of occupied Europe who collaborated with the Nazis by assisting in the roundups or, in some cases, in the actual hands-on execution of Jewish innocents. But the bottom line has to be that the Polish government itself did not participate in the annihilation of Polish Jewry. In other words, unlike in France or Hungary (or Norway—don’t tell the President), there was no collaborationist government in Poland assisting the Germans in the occupation of their own country. Yes, there were individual Poles who participated in the genocide. Estimates vary as to how many Jews died at the hands of their former neighbors—certainly thousands, including the victims of the infamous Jedwabne pogrom in the course of which the Polish citizens of that little town in eastern Poland locked hundreds of their Jewish neighbors in a barn and set it ablaze, intentionally murdering the town’s entire Jewish population on one single day in July of 1941—but there were also instances of great heroism by Poles who saved Jews (more than 6700 of whom are acknowledged as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem, more than any other nation: click here) and it is also true that Poland was one of only two occupied countries (the other was Holland) in which resistance activists set up a special organization dedicated to saving Jews. (Interestingly, the second most well represented on that Yad Vashem list is, in fact, Holland. France is third; Ukraine, fourth. Of course, these are countries of vastly different sizes.)

So what’s the real story with this bill? Introducing it on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on January 27, 1945, was a nice touch. But to be that sensitive about the mere suggestion of Polish complicity in the Shoah this many years after the fact really is, methinks, an example of protesting way too much and, in so doing, revealing something deep and painful that yet gnaws at the soul of Poland. What Poland needs is not a law forbidding honest dialogue regarding the past (let alone barring artistic expression if it seems inconsonant with Poland’s sense of itself as a victim nation), but just the opposite—one requiring people to come to terms with history, to face the demons in the closet, to accept the burden of the past and, shouldering it in a forthright manner, facing the future honestly and bravely. As my mother would have said, that is how grown-ups behave!

Amazingly, my thoughts on the matter were echoed in a particularly straightforward way just last week in a letter sent by, of all people, the secretary-general of the Muslim World League, Dr. Mohammed Al Issa, to Sara Bloomfeld, the director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The whole letter, which you can read by clicking here, is exceptional, but I would like to cite verbatim a few lines in particular because they stand in such remarkably stark contrast to the Polish effort last week not only not to confront the past but to criminalize any honest effort to do so.

Dr. Al Issa, a Saudi national, wrote as follows:

History is indeed impartial no matter how hard forgers tried to tamper with or manipulate it. Hence, we consider any denial of the Holocaust or minimizing of its effect a crime to distort history and an insult to the dignity of those innocent souls who have perished. It is also an affront to us all since we share the same human soul and spiritual bonds.

In the end, what more is there to say? Dr. Al Issa writes as a Muslim and his letter makes no effort to hide that. I imagine Dr. Al Issa and I disagree about many things (in fact, I’m sure we do), but, at least based on what he wrote in his letter to Sara Bloomfeld, I suspect that we are very likely in perfect agreement that the only way to deal honorably with a horror on the magnitude of the Shoah is to face it square on, to accept what it has to say about the depths of depravity to which human beings can sink, to learn both from the larger story and its countless details that neither ethnicity nor religion is a guarantee of virtue (and that certainly nationality also isn’t), and to internalize the truth that there is no limit to the depravity that inevitably ensues when a nation falls under the sway of the demonic and repudiates the scriptural mandate to consider every human being—and with no exceptions at all—to be created in the image of God.

If the Poles want to enact a law that will lead to reconciliation and conciliation, they should take Dr. Al Issa’s words to heart and invite true, unbiased historians to write a definitive study of the role of Poland and the Poles in the Shoah, then move on to atone for the bad, to celebrate the good…and to use the experience as a powerful platform on which to stand while joining the descendants of the few Polish Jews who escaped the Nazis’ clutches in saying, simply and without recrimination, “Never Again.”

#Polan #Anti-Semitism #Shoah #Sejm #Mohammed Al Issa

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