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Holy Father, Christians celebrate today the Immaculate Conception, the belief that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. People in Lyon, France, also celebrate « La fête des lumières » and light some candles on their windows, which predates the Scandinavian Saint Lucia by about a week. I am keen on these celebrations as, in the Northern hemisphere, days are the darkest and it always provides us with opportunity to actually appreciate whatever light actually remains. Instead of complaining about how far we are from our warm Summer nights, we always should praise You for how happy we are with whatever we have.

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Today we celebrate Budoc.

The name Budoc, or Beuzec, means "saved from the waters" from the Breton beuziñ meaning "drown"; but Baring-Gould finds this "fanciful". In old Celtic, boudi means "victory" and "profit". Budoc of Dol (also Budeaux or Beuzec) was a 5th-century Breton monk and Bishop of Dol, who has been venerated since his death as a saint in both Brittany (in France) and Devon (in England). Budoc is the patron saint of Plourin in Finistère where his relics are preserved. Budoc is reputed to have been a grandson of the legendary Count Even of Brest, Viscount of Léon. His mother, Princess Azenor, was falsely accused of infidelity by her jealous stepmother, which enraged her husband, the King of Goëlo [fr], who ordered that the pregnant Azenor be thrown into the sea in a cask. (A tower of the Château de Brest is named for her.) Azenor invoked the help of Saint Brigid. The cask drifted for five months. Shortly after Azenor's baby was born, the cask washed ashore on the coast of Ireland. The story echoes Greek myth. A villager who found the mother and newborn child summoned the abbot of Beau Port, near Waterford, and the child was christened the next day. Azenor became the washer-woman of the monastery, and Budoc was raised there. Azenor's stepmother fell ill, and upon her deathbed she recanted the evil lies she had spread. Azenor's husband then sailed in search of her, and, arriving in Ireland, the couple was reconciled, but both died before they could return to Brittany. (However, a tradition in Cornouaille has Azenor founding a religious establishment at Cap Sizun). Growing up, Budoc studied at a monastery at Ardmore, thought to have been founded in the early 5th century by Declán of Ardmore, where he became a monk and later abbot. He eventually left Ireland, sailing in a stone trough that landed at Porspoder. Two stained-glass windows in the chancel of Saint-Budoc Church in Porspoder depict scenes from the life of the saint. At some unknown point, Budoc made his way to Dol, where he was named bishop of the region, possibly in connection with a monastery allegedly founded by Samson of Dol, whom he is believed to have succeeded as the local bishop.

Today’s Deltas

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THE NUMBER 1497

• 1497 = 17 × 88 + 1

From https://findthefactors.com/2020/08/06/1497-mystery/

• 1497 = 3 × 499
• 1497 is the difference of two squares in two different ways: 749² – 748² = 251² – 248² = 1497

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_(number)#1400_to_1499

• skiponacci number

GREEK BIBLE ENTRY FOR INDEX #1497

• Eidolon: an image (i.e. for worship); by implication, a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such:--idol.

Matching Bible verses

• Rom 2:22: Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
• 1 Cor 12:2: Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
• Rev 9:20: And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk
• 1 Cor 8:4: As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
• 1 Cor 10:19: What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
• 1 Cor 8:7: Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
• Acts 15:20: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• 2 Cor 6:16: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• 1 Th 1:9: For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
• 1 Jo 5:21: Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
• Acts 7:41: And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

BIBLE VERSE MATCHING 88:1

• Psalm 88:1: A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath Leannoth.” A Contemplation of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

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See you tomorrow, Frens!🤓