Holidays
Stir-up Sunday
The last Sunday of the Christian Church Year. A traditional day to make the
Christmas pudding.
Birthdays
Mary of
Guise (French: Marie de Guise) (22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560)
was a queen consort of Scotland as the second spouse of King James V. She was
the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots, and served as regent of Scotland in her
daughter's name from 1554 to 1560. A native of Lorraine, she was a member of
the powerful House of Guise, which played a prominent role in 16th-century
French politics
Leopold
Charles Maurice Stennett Amery CH (22 November 1873 – 16 September
1955), usually known as Leo Amery or L. S. Amery, was a British Conservative
Party politician and journalist, noted for his interest in military
preparedness, India, and the British Empire
Henry
Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator. Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham (22 November 1564 – 24 January 1618 (Old Style)/3
February 1619 (New Style)) was an English peer who was implicated in the Main
Plot against the rule of James I of England
Stir-up Sunday is an informal term in Anglican churches for the last Sunday before the season of Advent.
ReplyDeleteThe term comes from the opening words of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (a translation of the Roman Missal's collect "Excita, quæsumus"):
Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Billie Jean King (née Moffitt; born November 22, 1943) is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won a total of 39 Grand Slam titles through out her career; this includes 12 singles, 16 doubles and 11 mixed doubles titles. Additionally King won the first ever WTA Tour Championships and was a three time winner of the doubles event. King is an advocate for sexual equality and won The Battle of the Sexes tennis match against Bobby Riggs in 1973 and was the founder of the Women's Tennis Association, World Team Tennis and the Women's Sports Foundation.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to add some interesting information about Mary of Guise. On 4 August 1534, at the age of 18, she became Duchess of Longueville by marrying Louis II, Duke of Longueville (born 1510), at the Château du Louvre.
ReplyDeleteAnne Crawford (22 November 1920, Haifa - 17 October 1956, London), born Imelda Crawford, was a British film actress, in films such as Millions Like Us. She married James Hartley in 1939, and died in 1956 of leukemia, aged only 35.
ReplyDeleteFilmography
Prison Without Bars (1938)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Millions Like Us (1943)
The Night Invader (1943)
The Peterville Diamond (1943)
The Dark Tower (1943)
Headline (1944)
Two Thousand Women (1944)
The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
They Were Sisters (1945)
The name 'Stir Up Sunday' comes from the opening words of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (The collect is the prayer of the day that “collects” up the themes of the readings during a church service).
ReplyDeleteThe originally collect (prayer) has today been adapted into more modern language and is now the Church of England's prayer after communion for Stir Up Sunday:
"Stir-up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people;
that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works,
may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."