A Christmas Carol Each Day for December
Monday December 1, 2008

At the
Gaudium Mundo blog, you can learn a new Christmas Carol, in Latin, of course, for each day of the month, although on the 31st, the offering is Auld Lang Syne. Today's song is
Rudolphus. You know the song. It's the one with the famous line:
"Rudolphe, naso claro
nonne carrum tu duces?"
There's also a widget you can use for your site to go directly to the day's song.
Rudolph graphic © Clipart.com
Sunday November 30, 2008

On this day in history the Greek playwright Euripides may have died in the Athenian year 407/406.
"The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them." Euripides Medea. 618.
Quotations from Euripides
Euripides' Life
Euripides Picture © Clipart.com
Sunday November 30, 2008

On this day in 1817 Theodor Mommsen was born. Mommsen was a German scholar who wrote authoritatively about ancient Rome. In 1902 he won a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Read more about
Theodor Mommsen Mommsen image © clipart.com.
Sunday November 30, 2008
From the last Sunday in November in 2008 until Christmas, it's
Advent, time to sing
Christmas Carols in Latin. Learn the Latin words to O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles), Veni, Emmanuel (O Come, Emmanuel), Once in Royal David's City (Regis olim urbe David), and Rudolphus, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Christmas Carols in LatinThe About.com Guide to Catholicism has devoted many pages to the topic. See:
Advent.
Read about the birth of Jesus in the
Synoptic Gospels:
The 12 days of Christmas end with Epiphany