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Holy Father, after a few weeks of fog, You remind me one ray of light after one another that Christmas is around the corner and there is no cosmologically shortened day which You won’t enlighten with Your Love. I praise You for that beautiful feeling.It feels like a Bond, an Alliance which nothing can ever shatter. Should You expect me to fly, there’s not enough fear left in my loving heart not to take the first step against this pesky gravity.

AGENDA

Today we celebrate Gatianus of Tours.

According to Christian historians, during the consulship of the Emperor Decius and Vettius Gratus (250 AD), Pope Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatianus to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges. A community of Christians had already existed for many years in Lyon, where Irenaeus had been bishop. As with other founders of the seven Catholic churches of Gaul, especially Martial, Gatianus became confounded in later Christian mythology with the "seventy-two disciples of Christ", alleged to have been sent into Gaul during the first century, by Peter himself. Other details of his biography, while not as easily disprovable, are also largely legendary. Gregory of Tours, writing in the 6th century, is a more dependable source for the few biographical details concerning his predecessor. According to the Catholic historian Louis Duchesne (Christian Worship: Its Origin and Evolution), the traditions preserved at Tours furnished Gregory with only the name of Gatianus and perhaps the 50-year extent of his episcopacy; it was by comparison with a brief early biography of Saturninus of Toulouse (Passio S. Saturnini) that Gregory arrived at the date 250 for the beginning of Gatianus' ministry at Tours (History of the Franks, 1.30). There were few Christians in Tours at that time, and in one of the troubled years of his episcopate he is said for a time to have lain concealed in a cave on the banks of the Loire, at a spot where later rose the great Abbey of Marmoutier, and Gregory states that Gratianus would go into the city only when opportunities of preaching presented themselves. He devoted half a century to evangelization, amid innumerable difficulties, and at his death the diocese of Tours was securely established. In a part of the empire where Mithraism was a dominating force among the legions, Léon Jaud reports that Gatianus likewise retreated into a grotto and there celebrated a mystical banquet (célébrait les saints mystères), but that of Christianity. Gatianus was often portrayed officiating at a ceremony in a cavern-like setting. Two grottos cut into the limestone hill above the river Loire, across from Tours at the largely demolished Marmoutier Abbey, are designated the first sites where Gatianus celebrated the liturgy. Gatianus established a hospice for the poor outside the walls of Tours. There he lay, overcome with weariness, after five decades of fasting, penances and toil. There, Jaud describes Jesus appearing to Gatianus, saying, "Fear not! Thy crown is readied and the Saints await thy arrival in Heaven." After Gatianus' death, during renewed persecution of Christians, the see of Tours remained unoccupied for 36 years. The Christians were dispersed and any direct connection with the historical Gatianus was irretrievably broken. Gregory records[6] the second bishop as Lidorius, traditionally credited with building the predecessor of the present cathedral in Tours, and states that he was bishop for 33 years until about the time Saint Martin arrived in Tours in 371 AD. However, Martin found few Christians in this city; local lore nevertheless kept the legend of Gatianus alive. Martin found Gatianus' burial site, and always venerated his predecessor. With the rise in importance of Paris, Gatianus came to be seen more and more as a disciple of Saint Denis, and is so described at many modern Catholic websites. Tours became a major pilgrimage site, focused on the tomb of Saint Martin of Tours. The cathedral, originally consecrated to Saint Maurice, was reconsecrated to Saint Gatianus at its 13th century rebuilding. His relics were destroyed in 1793, during the French Revolution.

Today, in 1507 was born Ōuchi Yoshitaka:

Ōuchi Yoshitaka (大内 義隆, December 18, 1507 – September 30, 1551) was the daimyō of Suō Province and the head of the Ōuchi clan, succeeding Ōuchi Yoshioki. In 1522, he fought the Amago clan along with his father, Yoshioki, to win the control of Aki Province. Upon Yoshioki's death in 1528, Yoshitaka became the head of Ōuchi clan. In the 1530s, he led a military actions in the northern Kyūshū, defeating Shōni clan to win control of the area. With his back then secure, in 1540 he again started combating the Amago clan and by 1541, managed to completely control the Aki province.

Today’s Deltas

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THE NUMBER 1507

• 1507 = 17 × 88 + 11

From https://findthefactors.com/2020/08/18/1507-and-level-6/

• 1507 = 11 × 137
• 1507 is the hypotenuse of a Pythagorean triple: 968-1155-1507, A divisibility trick tells us that all of the numbers in that triple are divisible by 11: 9 – 6 + 8 = 11, 1 – 1 + 5 – 5 = 0, and 1 – 5 + 0 – 7 = -11

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_(number)#1500_to_1599

• number of partitions of 32 that do not contain 1 as a part

GREEK BIBLE ENTRY FOR INDEX #1507

• Heilisso: a prolonged form of a primary but defective verb heilo (of the same meaning); to coil or wrap:--roll together.

Matching Bible verse

• Rev 6:14: And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

BIBLE VERSE MATCHING 88:11

• Psalm 88:11: Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction?

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See you tomorrow, Frens!🤓