Ante Diem VII Kal. Feb. AM 7514/AUC 2758

Today is the Feast of St Polycarp, B&M. His biography from The Catholic Encyclopædia.

From the East:

(When I screw up, I screw up! St Xenophon, posted yesterday, is commemorated today, Gregory the Theologian should have been commemorated yesterday.

From Ted Hewitt's Group:

St Margaret of Hungary

The Martyrology:

Today's

Tomorrow's, for those who recite Prime

On this day:

AD 1340, English king Edward III proclaimed king of France. An attempt to violate the Salic Law, this attempted usurpation led to the Hundred Years War.

AD 1699, Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey. Amistake, there can be no peace with the infidel swine!

AD 1763, Charles Bernadotte, French marshall, HM Charles XVI, King of Sweden & Norway (1818-44), born. He apostasised from the True Faith to accept the Throne.

AD 1885 Charles George «Chinese» Gordon, British Governor-General, slaughtered by infidel Muslim swine, at Khartoum, Sudan. (R+I+P)