Saturday, September 21, 2019

On this day, we celebrate the feast of St. Matthew the Evangelist and the birthday of Girolamo Savonarola, Renaissance friar, and preacher, who declared Florence "the New Jerusalem." The reading is "The Carpenter's Son" by A.E. Housman.

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