Monday, February 15, 2021

Simeon of Metz

Today is Fat Tuesday!    Lent begins tomorrow!   It is also:

Saint Simeon of Metz
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Our Saint today was a fourth century bishop of Metz, France.

Metz held a strategic position near the border of France and Germany. After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the area was annexed by the newly created German Empire in 1871 The German Army decided to build a fortress line from Mulhouse to Luxembourg to protect their new territories.


In World War II General Patton proved to Germany, and the world that fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. If the Alps could be conquered anything made by man can as well.   Again, I digress......

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