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Happy New Year!
Before continuing why don't you pause and reflect on the past year and think about history. Was 2020 really the worst year ever? Could things actually get a whole lot worse? Maybe there is a lot more things to be thankful for then you thought.
Wow! I've really been behind in blogging.
My 2021 Patron of this Blog
Saint Gerard of Lunel
Feast: May 6
Patronage: Against Epilepsy; Against Headaches; Epileptics
Saint Gerard of Lunel, also known as Roger of Lunel and as Saint Géri was a French saint. Born to the French nobility, he became a Franciscan tertiary at the age of five.
From his maternal grandfather, Raymond Guasselin, Gerard received half of the Barony of Lunel,
which consisted of 15 villages. When his grandfather died in 1294,
Gerard received other assets that were administered by his father, since
the future saint was underage at the time. In 1295, when Philip the Fair wished to possess a Mediterranean port, he offered to assume control over Lunel in exchange for the county of Roquefort, also situated in Languedoc, but in the diocese of Avignon rather than Montpellier. Gerard thus became a count rather than a baron. When he was 18, however, Gerard wished to live in solitude as a hermit. He and his brother Effrenaud (Effrendo) decided to live as hermit in two caves for two years.
According to his legend, when continuous rains swelled the river
so much that the two brothers remained trapped in their cave and thus in
danger of starving, two snakes carried bread to them. The rain then
stopped, and Gerard and his brother traveled to a distant castle to
receive communion. The miracle became known, and many people visited Gerard in his cave.
Wishing to escape the fame that they were earning as a result of their apparent holiness, they decided to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
They spent two years in Rome, visiting its shrines and churches. In
Rome, Gerard learned that there lived a holy man named Liberius at Ancona,
who had visited the Holy Land. Wishing to visit him, the two brothers
began to travel in the direction of Ancona, but Gerard suddenly suffered
a pain in his head.
Gerard suffered a collapse at Monte Santo (present-day Potenza Picena),[4] near Ancona. Effrenaud, leaving Gerard in a cottage, went to get help but by the time he came back, then Gerard had died.
This story came from Wikipedia.
The word of the year: Silence
Writing Goals for 2020
Finish Editing
"A Crash in Time" in the next couple of weeks
"Skyscraper Prisoner" as soon as I'm done with the last one.
"Trident of the Pentagon" volume 1
"The Right Cinderella" before July at the latest
and whatever else is in my important editing
Write
"The Sleep Project"
"The Red Helmet"
"The Far Edge Chronicles"
"Intergalactic Thieves"
"Life is Short"
Poppy's story from her last birthday
"Prince Charming Diaries volume 4, The Pauper Princes"
Publish
"Life is Short"
"Rise of the Justice Heroes"
"The Black Horizon"
2020 Successes
I completed all 50,000 words of my NaNo project after failing last year.
~The Author
