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Saint Ansgar (Anskar)
801 - 865
Feast Day: February 3
Patronage: Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark, Hamburg and Bremen, Germany
Saint Ansgar, the “Apostle of the North" was born in France. He entered the Benedictine Order and went to Denmark to evangelize pagan Scandinavia. He was made Archbishop of Hamburg in 831 and Archbishop of Bremen in 854 and began missionary work in Germany, Sweden and Denmark. He built the first Catholic church in Sweden. In the 13 years that he struggled to convert these countries, he had some success. He was an extraordinary preacher, a humble ascetic and was devoted to the poor and sick. He died peacefully in Bremen in 865.
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Towel Day
Towel Day on May 25 is an annual holiday created to celebrate author Douglas Adams by his fans. Adams wrote the classic sci-fi novel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” This day was organized in memory of him after he suffered a sudden heart attack at the age of 49. His fans wanted to find a way to commemorate his life’s work, and after having one towel day, its success made it a yearly event. On this day, fans carry towels around everywhere they go. Today, we are celebrating this holiday with a towel wrapped around our necks because, we too, love Douglas Adams!
History of Towel Day
Towel Day is celebrated on May 25, two weeks after the date of Adams’s death in 2001 — May 11. The day has, over time, received the status of being a kind of ‘‘geek holiday’’ due to its connection with the popular series.
Why a towel? It’s said the towel holds much importance in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Adams wrote about towels as being the most helpful item for an interstellar traveler. In chapter three of the book, he writes, “A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value — you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon…” and so the uses go on.
Adams’s strongest advice was “Never go anywhere without your towel.” This day has been celebrated now for 19 years and is a great occasion for science fiction fans all over the world to come together and rejoice … with their towels. It is said that Adams was a humorous writer and witty character and that this day reflects his lovable silliness.
Towel Day timeline
1978 An Oeuvre is Born
Douglas Adams's radio series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is broadcast for the first time — kickstarting a long line of adaptations into other formats.
2001 Wrap It
The first Towel Day ever is celebrated on May 25, 2001, just two weeks after Adams's death on May 11.
2012 Mind Bogglingly Big
In January, the Huffington Post lists Towel Day as a cult literary tradition.
2013 The Good Towels
The Norwegian public transport company Kolumbus gives away special towels to customers.
2015 What is the Universe for?
On Towel Day, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti signals a Towel Day greeting and reads from ‘‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’’ from the International Space Station.
Towel Day Activities
Carry a towel
Use a line from the series
Visit the website
The hardcore fans of ‘‘Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’’ will be carrying a towel around for the day, so grab your towel and join in! Just make sure that it’s clean. Take a photo of you wearing your towel, and upload it to social media with the hashtag #towelday.
Weave in some of the phrases from the ‘‘Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’’ into your conversations. Try "Life, the Universe, and Everything", "Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them around to dinner", "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so", or "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." It may confuse folks around you, but those who know, know.
Check out the towelday.org website and see what everyone else is up to on this day. Inspire yourself and find other ways to celebrate or join in with others as a group in your area or even your country. Or be a go-getter and make your own Towel Day event that fans can attend.
5 Facts About Douglas Adams
An asteroid is named after him
He appeared in a famous TV show
He was friends with David Gilmour
He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro ... but there's more
He wrote a few "Doctor Who" episodes
In 2001, Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project discovered an asteroid and named it 25924 Douglasadams.
Adams apparently made a brief appearance as an extra called Dr. Emile Konig in an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus — he also contributed to the writing of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
An avid musician himself, Adams owned between 24 and 35 left-handed guitars, appeared on stage at Pink Floyd's 1994 gig at Earl's Court in London, and named the band's album that year, "The Division Bell."
Adams was an environmentalist and loved animals, campaigning on behalf of endangered species for most of his life — in 1994, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit to raise awareness for Save The Rhino.
He was a contributing writer for several episodes of the famous British series, "Doctor Who."
Why We Love Towel Day
Online antics
Book marathon
Galaxy binge session
You can get loads of information on the day from the twitter account @towelday and the official website, towelday.org. You can find out stuff like information on the life of Douglas Adams, details on the “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” radio series, and interact with the 7,000+ fans who follow this day.
This holiday gives us a chance to read or reread Adams's life’s work. Go back and immerse yourself in the trilogy of “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” as well as “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul” and many more titles that made Adams so beloved.
This day also gives us a chance to binge on the shows linked to Adams. So watch a movie or a TV series derived from his books. Do it with your friends and carry your towels together. Celebrate this great author and come together to watch some good and classic TV.
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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT ANSGAR
The Bishop and Apostle of Scandinavia
Feast Day: February 3
"If I were worthy of such a favour from my God, I would ask that He grant me this one miracle – that by His grace, He would make of me a good man."
On September 8, 801, Ansgar was born in Corbie, France, and was the son of a noble Frankish family. According to the Vita Ansgarii (Life of Ansgar), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Mary, mother of Jesus, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness. He was educated at the Bendictine monastery in Picardy, and later became abbot of New Corbie in Westphalia, Germany, where he became a teacher and preacher.
With the approval of Pope Gregory IV, he appointed as bishop of Hamburg in 831, he was given the mission of evangelizing Denmark, Norway and Sweden. His exceptional talent for preaching was accompanied by good luck.
The superstitious King of Sweden decided to cast lots as to whether the Christian missionaries should be admitted into his kingdom. Ansgar recommended the issue to the care of God, and the lot was favorable. He wore a rough hair shirt, lived on bread and water, and showed great charity to the poor.
When Ansgar died on February 3, 865 at the age of 63 in Bremen, the whole Northern Europe bewailed him. Being the first missionary in Sweden and the organizer of hierarchy in the Nordic countries, he was declared 'Apostle of the North'.
History records what people do, rather than what they are. Yet the courage and perseverance of men and women like Ansgar can only come from a solid base of union with the original courageous and persevering Missionary. Ansgar's life is another reminder that God writes straight with crooked lines. Christ takes care of the effects of the apostolate in his own way; he is first concerned about the purity of the apostles themselves.
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About St Anthony of Padua
About St Bridget of Sweden
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En el imaginario popular de muchos países, el día más corto es el 13 de diciembre, día de Santa Lucía. Depende del calendario que se use (Juliano o Gregoriano).
En Italia y los Países Escandinavos es toda una fiesta.
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Lucia Day: On December 13 Sweden celebrates Lucia Day. The event symbolizes light in the midst of a dark winter. — by Cecilia Larsson Lantz
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my favourite thing about sweden is that we have a traditional and widely beloved and celebrated feast day dedicated to a saint that’s not even swedish
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Happy Feast Day
Saint Bridget of Sweden
1303 - 1373
Feast Day: July 23 (new) October 8 (trad)
Patronage: Europe, Sweden, Widows
Bridget of Sweden was married at 13 and the mother of eight children (the second eldest was St. Catherine of Sweden). After the death of her husband of twenty years, she founded the Bridgettines nuns and monks. Bridget was a mystic, who received visions from early childhood which became more frequent and definite. She believed that Christ Himself appeared to her, and she wrote down the revelations she then received.
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SAINT OF THE DAY (July 23)
Today, July 23, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Bridget of Sweden.
Bridget received visions of Christ’s suffering many times throughout her life and went on to found the Order of the Most Holy Savior.
Daughter of Birger Persson, the governor and provincial judge of Uppland, and of Ingeborg Bengtsdotter, Bridget was born in Sweden in 1303.
From the time she was a child, she was greatly devoted to the passion of Jesus.
When she was only ten, it is recorded that she had a vision of Jesus on the cross and heard him say, “Look at me, my daughter."
"Who has treated you like this?" cried little Bridget.
Jesus answered, "Those who despise me and refuse my love for them.”
From that moment on, Bridget tried to stop people from offending Jesus.
When she was 14, Bridget married an 18-year old man named Ulf. Like Bridget, Ulf had set his heart on serving God.
They had eight children, including St. Catherine of Sweden.
Bridget and Ulf also served the Swedish court. Bridget was the queen's personal maid.
Bridget tried to help King Magnus and Queen Blanche lead better lives, however, for the most part, they did not listen to her.
All her life, Bridget had marvelous visions and received special messages from God.
In obedience to them, she visited many rulers and important people in the Church. She explained humbly what God expected of them.
After her husband died, Bridget put away her rich clothes and lived as a poor nun.
Later, in 1346, she began the Order of the Most Holy Savior, also known as Bridgettines.
She still kept up her own busy life, traveling about doing good everywhere she went.
And through all this activity, Jesus continued to reveal many secrets to her, which she received without the least bit of pride.
Shortly before she died, the saint went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. At the shrines there, she had visions of what Jesus had said and done in each place.
All revelations of St. Bridget on the sufferings of Jesus were published after her death.
St. Bridget died in Rome on 23 July 1373. She was proclaimed a saint by Pope Boniface IX on 7 October 1391.
On 1 October 1999, Pope John Paul II named Saint Bridget a patron saint of Europe.
Her feast day is celebrated on July 23, the day of her death.
"True wisdom, then, consists in works, not in great talents, which the world admires; for the wise in the world's estimation . . . are the foolish who set at naught the will of God, and know not how to control their passions."
— Saint Bridget of Sweden
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All-Saints' Day, the day of remembrance for the dead. Peaceful Saint's Day 05.11.2022.
All Saints' Day was originally celebrated on November 1, as it still is in many countries, but in Finland and Sweden it is celebrated between October 31 and November 6. on the perfect Saturday.
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