Daily Calendar - May 29

The 149th day of the year, 216 days left until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Venerable Theodore the Sanctifier (368); Hieromartyr Alexander, Bishop of Jerusalem (213-250); Martyrs: Vitius, Modestus and Crescentius (c. 303); Blessed Virgin Mary Musa (V); Venerable Fathers, who lived in the Lavra of St. Saba (614); George II, Bishop of Mytilene (IX).

Venerable Theodore was originally from Egypt. His parents were distinguished and wealthy Christians. He very early developed a desire for monastic life. He was 14 years old when he secretly left his native home and went to one of the monasteries.

Archbishop George II was Bishop of Mytilene in 820-829. At that time, the iconoclastic heresy was raging. He died in 842. In the 12th century, his holy relics were seen by the Russian abbot Daniel, who was traveling to the East to venerate the holy places.

Born:

1630 _ Charles II, King of England. Died in 1685.

1805 _ Solomon Dodashvili, philosopher. Died in 1836.

1857 _ Andria Karashvili, composer, violin virtuoso, teacher. Died in 1925.

1860 _ Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz, Spanish composer. Died in 1909.

1874 _ Gilbert Chesterton, English writer. Died 1936.

1880 _ Oswald Spengler, German philosopher. Died 1930.

1906 _ Yusuf Kobaladze, actor. Died 1981.

1917 _ John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States. Assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

1935 _ Ramaz Surmanidze, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor.

Died:

1453 _ Constantine XI, last Byzantine emperor from the Palaeologus dynasty.

1500 _ Bartholomew Dias, Portuguese navigator, traveler.

1814 _ Josephine Beauharnais, wife of Emperor Napoleon I.

1958 _ Juan Ramon Jiménez, Spanish poet, 1956 Nobel Prize laureate.

2011 - Sergei Bagapshi, leader of the separatist regime in Abkhazia

Events:

862 _ Rurik founded the first dynasty of Russian princes in Novgorod.

1453 _ Mehmed II, founder of the Ottoman Empire, captured Constantinople. Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI died in the battle. The Byzantine Empire ceased to exist. Constantinople — Istanbul became the capital of the Turkish Empire.

1555 _ The Treaty of Amasia was signed. Iran and the Ottoman Empire divided the territory of Georgia into spheres of influence.

1953 _ New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Norgay Tenzing climbed Mount Everest, the world's highest peak.

1971 _ 11 sets of twins were born in Philadelphia, USA. None of them survived.

Memorable day:

Rhode Island _ Reunification Day in the USA.

UN - Peacekeepers' Day.

UN - International Digestive Health Day.

Argentina - Army Day.

Dominican Republic - Mother's Day.

Kyrgyzstan - Armed Forces Day.