Holidays on this day
- Hanukkah (Candlelight Festival) (0+)
- World Candlelight Day
- World Choral Day
- International Monkey Day
- Free Shipping Day
- Garlic Fish Chowder Day
- Soul Birds Release Day
Significant events in history
1542 Mary Stuart is declared Queen of Scots.
1720 Fleeing from ruined investors, the adventurer-economist John Law secretly fled from Paris.
1893 In Moscow, on Red Square, the Upper Trading Rows (today GUM) were inaugurated.
1911 Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole, a month ahead of Robert Scott's expedition.
1947 The USSR adopted the Resolution “On carrying out monetary reform and the abolition of cards for food and industrial goods.”
Persons
On December 14, 1503, the French doctor, scientist and predictor Nostradamus was born.
On December 14, 1546, the Danish astronomer, astrologer and alchemist of the Renaissance, Tycho Brahe, was born.
On December 14, 1789, the Russian princess, writer, and poetess Zinaida Volkonskaya was born.
On December 14, 1821, the Russian poet Nikolai Shcherbina was born.
On December 14, 1895, King George VI of Great Britain (1936-1952) was born.
On December 14, 1922, Soviet physicist, academician, Nobel laureate Nikolai Basov was born.
Indian actor, film director, producer, screenwriter Raj Kapoor was born on December 14, 1924.
Folk calendar
Naum to mind
On this day, the memory of the holy prophet Nahum, who lived in Galilee in the 7th century BC, is celebrated. Almost no information has been preserved about his life, but a book of prophecies is known that came from the pen of Nahum shortly after the fall of Thebes in 663 BC.
In Rus', the prophet Naum was considered the patron of science and literacy – probably not least thanks to his name. “Nahum instructs the mind,” people said, and on the day of the prophet’s memory they sent their children to be apprenticed to parish clerks.
There was a whole ceremony: in the morning the whole family went to church, where they served a prayer service and asked for blessings for their studies. Afterwards, already at home, the teacher was greeted, treated to him and introduced to him by the student. The boy had to make three prostrations to the teacher – and in response he received three light (symbolic) blows with a whip. After the first lesson, the teacher presented them with an embroidered towel and a loaf of bread.
They prayed to Saint Naum for wisdom, asking him to “instruct the mind,” “to give wisdom.” They said that “the prophet Nahum will sharpen the mind.” On this day, other sayings about intelligence and learning were also remembered: “A head without a mind is like a lantern without a candle”; “He who is good at reading and writing will not perish”; “The root of learning is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”; “If you don’t study, you can’t weave bast shoes,” and so on.
Name day on this day
Dmitry, Naum, Porfiry.
Source: Calend.ru.
