Good Morning & God Bless To Every One !
Today is February 11, the 42nd day of 2014 and there are 323 days left this year where it is another Blessed Day in the pleasure of our service for our Lord here at:
For God’s Glory Alone Ministries !!!
So, What Happened Today In 1858 ?
The Virgin Mary Appears To St. Bernadette
In southern France, Marie-Bernarde Soubirous, a 14-year-old French peasant girl, first claims to have seen the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ and a central figure in the Roman Catholic religion. The apparitions, which totaled 18 before the end of the year, occurred in a grotto of a rock promontory near Lourdes, France. Marie explained that the Virgin Mary revealed herself as the Immaculate Conception, asked that a chapel be built on the site of the vision, and told the girl to drink from a fountain in the grotto, which Marie subsequently discovered by digging into the earth.
The concept of the Immaculate Conception, in which the Virgin Mary is regarded free from original sin from the moment of her conception, had been accepted just four years previous by Pope Pius IX. Marie’s claims garnered widespread attention, but skeptical church authorities subjected her to severe examinations and refused to accept her visions. After years of mistreatment at the hands of the authorities and the curious public, she was finally allowed to enter the convent of Notre-Dame de Nevers, where she spent her remaining years in prayer and seclusion. She died of ill heath at the age of 35.
The sight of her manifestations subsequently became the most famous modern shrine of the Virgin Mary, and in 1933 Marie-Bernarde Soubirous was canonized as St. Bernadette by the Roman Catholic Church. Today, millions travel to Lourdes every year to visit St. Bernadette’s grotto, whose waters supposedly have curative powers.
Other Memorable Or Interesting Events Occurring On February 11 In History:
660 BC – Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno;
55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor;
1531 – Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England;
1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital opens and is the first hospital in the United States;
1766 – Virginia declares The ‘Stamp Act’ unconstitutional;
1776 – In the American Revolution, Georgia’s royal governor, Sir James Wright, escapes from his residence in Savannah to the safety of a waiting British warship, the HMS Scarborough, anchored at the mouth of the Savannah River, and returns to London. Governor Wright had been taken into custody and placed under house arrest nearly a month earlier on January 18, 1776, by Patriots under the command of Major Joseph Habersham of the Provincial Congress. Wright was the only colonial governor and Georgia the only colony to successfully implement the Stamp Act in 1765. Georgia remained the most loyal colony, declining to send delegates to the Continental Congress in 1774. Although briefly removed from power, Wright organized a military action and retook Savannah on December 29, 1778. He then resumed office as royal governor on July 22, 1779, remaining in office until July 11, 1782, when the British abandoned Georgia for good. Wright then moved to London, where he died three years later;
1805 – Sacagawea, the Shoshone Indian interpreter and guide to the Lewis and Clark expedition, gives birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He is later nicknamed ‘Pompey’;
1809 – Robert Fulton patents the Steam Boat;
1812 – Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed a redistricting law favoring his Democratic-Republican Party — giving rise to the term “gerrymandering.”;
1852 – 1st British public female toilet opens on Bedford Street in London;
1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln leaves home in Springfield, Illinois, and embarks on his journey to Washington, D.C.;
1916 – Emma Goldman, a crusader for women’s rights and social justice, is arrested in New York City for lecturing and distributing materials about birth control. She was accused of violating the Comstock Act of 1873, which made it a federal offense to disseminate contraceptive devices and information through the mail or across state lines. In addition to advocating for women’s reproductive rights;
1926 – The Mexican government nationalizes all church property;
1929 – The Lateran Treaty was signed, with Italy recognizing the independence and sovereignty of Vatican City, the world’s smallest country;
1942 – The comic book “Archie” debuts;
1942 – During World War II, the German battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, escape from the French port of Brest and make a mad dash up the English Channel to safety in German waters, commonly referred to as the ‘Channel Dash’;
1945 – During World War II, a week of secret meetings between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Black Sea port of Yalta ends on this day in 1945, and Roosevelt and his daughter, Anna, begin their journey home. The meeting is Roosevelt’s last appearance at an international conference. As an Allied victory appeared increasingly imminent, The Big Three met to decide the post-war boundaries of Europe and to discuss military strategy;
1956 – Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, former members of the British Foreign Office who had disappeared from England in 1951, resurface in Moscow. Their surprise appearance and formal statement to the press put an end to one of the most intriguing mysteries of the early Cold War. Maclean and Burgess had been senior officials in the British Foreign Office and in 1951, they seemed to disappear without a trace. Evidence from both British and American intelligence agencies strongly suggested that the two, together with fellow Foreign Office workers Kim Philby and Sir Anthony Blunt, had engaged in espionage for the Russians. Both men spent the rest of their lives in the Soviet Union. Burgess died in 1963 and Maclean passed away in 1983;
1962 – In the Vietnam War, nine U.S. and South Vietnamese crewmen are killed in a SC-47 crash about 70 miles north of Saigon. The aircraft was part of Operation Farm Gate, a mission that had initially been designed to provide advisory support in assisting the South Vietnamese Air Force to increase its capability. In December, President John F. Kennedy expanded the Farm Gate mission to include limited combat missions by the U.S. Air Force pilots in support of South Vietnamese ground forces–the downed aircraft was part of this expanded effort;
1970 – From the Kagoshima Space Center on the east coast of Japan’s Ohsumi Peninsula, Ohsumi, Japan’s first satellite, is successfully launched into an orbit around Earth. The achievement made Japan the world’s fourth space power, after the Soviet Union in 1957, the United States in 1958, and France in 1965;
1975 – Mrs. Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman to lead the British Conservative Party;
1990 – Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid and future president of South Africa is released from prison after 27 years;
2011 – President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi;
2012 – Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, is found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Houston’s death was the result of accidental drowning; heart disease and cocaine, which was found in her system, were determined to be contributing factors;
2013 – With a few words in Latin, Pope Benedict XVI did what no pope had done in more than half a millennium: announced his resignation. The bombshell came during a routine morning meeting of Vatican cardinals. The 85-year-old pontiff was succeeded by Pope Francis;
2013 –It was one year ago TODAY !
Now, Off To The Fun Stuff !
Today’s Patriotic Quote:
“Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.”
– John Wayne
Today’s Funny Thought For The Day:
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you!
Today’s Dog Thought:
Dear God: We Dogs can understand human verbal instructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers, scent IDs,electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flight paths. What do humans understand?
Today’s Thought For The Day:
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain
Today’s ‘I Fixed It For You Honey!’:
Today’s Trivia:
The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,896 miles.
Today’s Word For The Day:
Hyperbole; Hyperbolic, n. Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. “The company chairman may have been guilty of too much hyperbole during the shareholders meeting.”
Today’s ‘Love Is’:
Today’s SCARY Picture:
Click here for a scary picture; this will get you thinking before you vote again! – https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Today’s Internet Proverb:
The geek shall inherit the earth.
Today’s ‘AWE of GOD’ Picture:
Palouse Fall, Washington
Today’s ‘Astute Visionary’:
“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”
– Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
Today’s Video:
‘Jumpy’ the amazing talented and smart Border Collie – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5I_QzPLEjM4
Today’s Picture Taken With Impeccable Timing:
Today’s Joke Of The Day:
A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, and looked at the old pages as he turned them. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible, and he picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been pressed between the pages.
‘Momma, look what I found,’ the boy called out.
‘What have you got there, dear?’ his mother asked.
With astonishment in the young boy’s voice, he answered: ‘I think it’s Adam’s suit!’
Today’s Inspirational Music Video:
Days Of Elijah – https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f5w0Vzc1Ks0
Today’s Funny Church Sign:
Today’s Verse & Prayer:
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
– 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
Dear Holy God and Sacrificial Father, teach me to notice others and value them just as you do. I know you loved me when I was not lovable, and redeemed me when I was not worthy. Help me to take my eyes off myself and see others as you see them. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.
Once again, Off to my NAP:
So, Until Tomorrow – America, Bless God !
