St Melangell's Church is a Grade I listed medieval building in the former village of Pennant Melangell, in the Tanat Valley, Powys, Wales. Built over a Bronze Age burial ground, the church was founded around the 8th century to commemorate the reputed grave of Melangell, a hermit and abbess who founded a convent and sanctuary in the area. The current church was built in the 12th century and has been renovated several times, including major restoration work in the 19th and 20th centuries. Archaeological excavation in the 20th century uncovered prehistoric and early medieval activity. The church contains the reconstructed shrine to Melangell, considered the oldest surviving Romanesque shrine in northern Europe and which was a major pilgrimage site in medieval Wales. The interior of the church holds a 15th-century rood screen depicting Melangell's legend, two 14th-century effigies, paintings, and liturgical fittings.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1934:

The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its emphasis on countering negative misconceptions of Chinese people, began serialisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Lotus

1944:

The United States Forest Service authorized the use of Smokey Bear as its mascot to replace Bambi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Bear

1974:

On the verge of an impeachment and removal from office amid the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first president of the United States to resign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

2014:

Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, resulting in widespread protests and unrest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Michael_Brown

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

one: 1. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something. 2. Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the originator of something. 3. A nominalizer used to form a noun phrase without a head noun. 4. (Singapore, Singlish, rare) Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/one

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self- sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.   --Jean Piaget https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget