Wednesday, December 26th, 2007...7:18 am
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For those of you that are curious, today is the feast day of St. Stephen, as in “Good King Wenceslaus looked out on the Feast of Stephen…”
So, you are free to sing that song today if you wish.
By the way, Wenceslaus wasn’t a king but a duke. Don’t say that one too loud, however. Apparently, the guy has a sleeping army of knights under Mt. Blanik and he and his sword Bruncvik are ready to give all enemies of the Czech Republic a what for. I tend not to mess with legendary dead guys who name their swords.
NB - Some political content: the man that had Wenceslaus assasinated, Boleslaus I, had a brother, Boleslaus II, whose son married into an English family and is reputed to be an ancestor of George Walker Bush.
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December 26th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Thanks for officially recognizing my day, St. Theodore.
— St. Stephen
December 26th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Dang, I might be related too then.
I quit doing my geneology when I found out I was a distant cousin of the Bush family.
December 26th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
My father, Stephen, is long gone but happy memories of celebrating his birthday and feast day remain. He was born at home on December 26, 1915 and baptized in early January but his baptismal certificate read January, 1915. We always joked that he was baptized before he was born.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:25 am
In the eastern orthodox world it is celebrated on the 27th.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen
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