{"id":2154,"date":"2012-02-23T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2016-01-26T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:15:40","slug":"dominican-friar-lays-egg-on-ash-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/dominican-friar-lays-egg-on-ash-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Friar Lays Egg on Ash Wednesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nT<\/span>oday is the feast of the blessed martyr Saint Polycarp<\/a> (he of many fishes). Burned alive in Rome for the crime of being a Christian bishop, he was a disciple of Saint John the Apostle.<\/p>\n

Although I could wax on and on about the great Polycarp, I’m not going to, for as the headline to this post reveals, a truly incredible event has taken place in our time.<\/p>\n

Now I have an old beat-up paperback that makes great brainless reading called News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe – The Fugger Newsletters<\/a><\/em>. This book contains contemporary reports from the various Fugger agents throughout Europe to their main office.<\/p>\n

As you might expect, much of it involves political and economic reports at the scene – there is a whole section of reports from Spain, Holland, and England regarding the progress of the Spanish Armada for instance. <\/p>\n

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A Dominican Friar<\/p><\/div>But in addition to what we might consider the “Six o’Clock News Reports” there are also a whole host of reports that might have come right out of “Weekly World News<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Things like “Frightful apparition in the skies of Vienna”, “Antichrist born in Babylonian village”, that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Well, yesterday, Ash Wednesday, a Dominican Friar laid an egg for the first time. Her name is Violet.<\/p>\n

Wait, did I say Dominican Friar?<\/em> I meant Dominique Fryer<\/em>. Sorry for the confusion. <\/p>\n

The Dominiques were named after Dominicans because of their black and white colour scheme. You can see how I made the mistake.<\/p>\n

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Violet the Dominique<\/p><\/div>Anyway, in a supreme bit of irony, our first chicken egg appeared on Ash Wednesday, the start of the Lenten fast.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there’s a real joke in there somewhere, but I can’t quite smoke it out.<\/p>\n

It was a tiny little egg, but absolutely great for a first effort. Francine had it fried for breakfast this morning and pronounced it delicious.<\/p>\n

At some point, I’ll publish some ruminations about our urban farm, but for the moment I’ll just leave you with the egg:<\/p>\n

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