Posted on 03/17/2002 3:56:33 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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Saint Patrick was born in 387 A.D. in Britain as Maewyn Succat. His father Calphurnius was a Roman official. Saint Patrick was kidnapped at age 16 and sold into slavery in Ireland, according to his autobiography .He escaped by boat to Britain after six years of captivity and traveled to St. Martin's monastery in Tours, France, where he studied under Saint Germain of Auxerre and became a priest. In 431 A.D. Pope Celestine I named him Patricius and sent him on a mission to Ireland. In 432 A.D he arrived in Ireland and successfully converted the island from Druidism (pron. DREW-id-ism) to the Christian faith. He wrote The Confession defending his life of service and also wrote A Letter to Coroticus attacking slavery and denouncing British King Coroticus for kidnapping and enslaving his converts. These works are the only documents to have survived the fall of Rome and are in the Bibliothèque National in Paris. (12) Saint Patrick became primatial bishop in 455 A.D. at Ard Macha, a hill away from Emain Macha (pron. EV-n MA-ha), seat of the Ulster (pron. ULL-stir) Kings. Saint Patrick died on March 17th 461 A.D. The date of his death is disputed between March 8th and March 9th, so they were added together.Today Saint Patrick is revered by many christian denominations and he is the official saint of the Church of Ireland. Many people go to sacred wells, mountains, and placenames in his honor throughout the year. (3, 5, 26)
Here's to absent friends and here's twice to absent enemies.
Here's to the light heart and the heavy hand.
Thirst is a shameless disease so here's to a shameful cure.
Here's to a wet night and a dry morning.
May we always have a clean shirt, a clean conscience, and a bob in the pocket.
May you be across Heaven's threshold before the old boy knows you're dead.
When I was up on the roof with the leaf blower today I was thinking... did Julia Roberts make all those lousy movies last year just so somebody else has a chance at an award? Bless her heart!
These days that'll probably get you killed. Don't know whether to laugh or cry about that.
I should be in Venice last tomorrow night, but that's like 5 hours earlier for you. I will have my laptop and I am staying at hotels that have facilities for the internet. My first two nights are at the Concordia on San Marcos Square. Then on to the Hotel Palace in Milan and then the Villa San Michele in Florence.
The Villa San Michele in a converted monestary in the mountains above Florence. The facade was designed by Michaelangelo.
I leave on Saturday night and will be back Sunday morning so I can take a nap and get ready for OSCAR NIGHT!!!!!
I would ask you all to get this week's Nation Examiner. It has ' STARS WITHOUT MAKEUP' on the cover. It is the very best tabloid that I have ever seen. Great big photos of stars looking just awful. I bought all the bloids to read on the plane so I am set to go. .
I will keep in touch, but if you don't hear from me , then you know I have just eaten myself into oblivion.
Take care all my dear friends, I just adore you all. Next time I go to Italy, you are all coming with me.
Cheers, CC :)
a freckled butt...
Are you kidding? Do you really think David will let them play with HIS Shirley Temple dolls? LOL!
Well since you're bringing your laptop along, it sounds like we're going with you already!!
Next time we will all be more than happy to go with you! How generous of you to invite us all! You must have a very high limit on you American Express card! :)
Did HLL ask anyone to start today's thread? If not, I will. I'll wait around a little while to await a response. Hmmm hmmm hmmm, la la la, waiting around a little while, doodlededoo, la da dum...
As our Chelsea-loving ChrisM. would say, "Waiting, waiting ...." I think I'll check my e-mail. Back later.
THE 40 staffers axed from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia the other day got the bad news one at a time in a glass-walled office while their crushed colleagues looked on - and while an executive's dog was being fawned over next door in Stewart's office. The victims in the see-through dismissal chamber could plainly see the bulldog being "feted with attention by photographers and groomers alike," our "stunned" spy reports. Stewart herself was nowhere to be seen. "I don't know that the dog was in Stewart's office," her rep says.
And even more Minnelli, from Neal Travis:
APART from the cops having to toss everyone out of the men's bathroom around midnight (the fog of pot smoke was drifting into the ballroom), Liza Minnelli's wedding went off surprisingly smoothly. Liza and husband No. 4, David Gest, were themselves the models of propriety.
"David brought me back from the brink of death," Liza confided to friends. "No drink, no drugs for the past three months. He won't tolerate it."
OK magazine got its $1.3 million's worth from the nuptials. (The magazine is planning two issues, the first at the end of this week, devoted to the over-the-top celebration.) Liza and David stayed at the reception until 2:10 a.m. yesterday and they delivered all the stars that were promised.
One of the great photo ops was backstage at the Marble Collegiate Church, where Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole, and Diana Ross and her son were gathered. Diana's boy did a break dance for Jacko, who responded with his famous moonwalk. You had to be there.
Taylor couldn't stay past about 8 p.m. She was in agony and said she wouldn't have come out for anyone but Liza. Taylor noted that since having brain surgery, "I've broken my back five times." But she was strong enough to give Minnelli a spirited pep talk about life and coping.
Security was tight. About half a dozen of the catering staff had miniature cameras seized. OK was so jealously protecting its rights that it wouldn't even let Liza walk out of the church in her wedding gown, so she covered up in a full-length, white Dennis Basso mink.
Early yesterday, Liza and David were up dancing to "I Will Survive" and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. "I will survive," Liza promised as she teasingly goosed her sunglassed spouse. "He'll see to that."
They are flying off to Thailand for their honeymoon today.
Barf Alert!!! Gore Alert!!! Same thing!!!!
SAVVY Karenna Gore Schiff was at Paul Beirne’s famous St. Patrick’s party Friday night, and confided to guests that my scoop of that day about her mom, Tipper, considering a bid for the Senate from Tennessee this year was dead right. Karenna indicated that Tipper would enter the race, but, according to reports yesterday, mom decided that now wasn’t the time. Others at Paul’s Sanford Bernstein money-management bash included Charles Rockefeller (Jay’s son), [Clinton girlfriend - Bill's, not Hillary's] Patricia Duff (who is looking glorious despite the long legal hassles she’s been through), Ron Silver and his drop-dead girlfriend Kate Castelbajac, Toni and Jim Goodale, and our new public advocate, Betsy Gotbaum, who was comparing notes with her predecessor, Mark Green.
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