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

Today is the Feast of St Agnes, VM. Her biography from The Catholic Encyclopædia.

From the East:

Maximos the Confessor

Neophytos the Martyr of Nicaea

From Ted Hewitt's Group:

St Agnes

The Martyrology:

Today's

Tomorrow's, for those who recite Prime

On this day:

AD 1189, Philippe Augustus, King of France, Henry II, King of England and Frederick Barbarossa, Roman Emperor, assemble the troops for the Third Crusade.

AD 1338 His Majesty, Charles V (the Wise) King of France (1364-80), born.

AD 1604, Tsar Ivan IV defeats the False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar.

AD 1664, Count Miklós of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish jihadist army. Nineteen years later, they were defeated before the walls of Vienna. Muslims out of Europe!

AD 1977, Italy legalizes abortion. May God have mercy on them.

AD 1793, His Most Christian Majesty, Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, foully murdered by the Revolution. Vive le Christ-roi! Vive la France! Vive le roi, Louis XX!

AD 1924, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (N. Lenin), Red Russian dictator and murderer, dies of a stroke at 54. May God have mercy on his soul!

AD 1937, H.R.H. The Prince Max born.