Paulinus of York was a Roman missionary and the first Bishop of York. A
member of the Gregorian mission sent by Pope Gregory I to convert the
Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in 601, Paulinus arrived in England by 604
with the second missionary group. Little is known of Paulinus'
activities in the following two decades. After some years spent in
Kent, Paulinus was consecrated a bishop, probably in 627. He
accompanied Æthelburg of Kent, sister of King Eadbald of Kent, on her
journey to Northumbria to marry King Edwin of Northumbria, and
eventually succeeded in converting Edwin to Christianity. Paulinus also
converted many of Edwin's subjects and built a few churches. One of the
women Paulinus baptised was a future saint, Hilda of Whitby. Following
Edwin's death in 633 Paulinus and Æthelburg fled Northumbria, leaving
behind a member of Paulinus' clergy, James the Deacon. Paulinus
returned to Kent, where he became Bishop of Rochester. After his death
in 644, Paulinus was venerated as a saint.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1167:
A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and
Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Porzio>
1453:
Constantinople fell to the besieging Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed
II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople>
1867:
By the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, signed by Franz Joseph I of Austria
and a Hungarian delegation led by Ferenc Deák, the Dual Monarchy of
Austria–Hungary was established.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Compromise_of_1867>
1913:
The Rite of Spring, a ballet with music by Russian composer Igor
Stravinsky , was first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in
Paris.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring>
1953:
New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer
Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount
Everest.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary>
1999:
Olusegun Obasanjo took office as President of Nigeria, the first
elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of
military rule.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
labefaction (n):
The act of shaking or weakening or the resulting state; overthrow,
ruination
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/labefaction>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
--John F. Kennedy
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