We are the 77th day of the year and we celebrate Saint Cyril.
Bishop of Jerusalem where he died in 386, preached for catechumens at the Holy Sepulchre.
His sermons later constituted his Catechesis, a summary of Christian doctrine.
The sun rises three minutes earlier at 6:59 a.m. and sets two minutes later, at 6:59 p.m. Weather-wise, some rain accompanied by thunderstorms is expected this Saturday but the weather remains mostly sunny.
Some March 18
1314: King Philippe le Bel abolishes the order of the Templars
1842: birth of the poet Stéphane Mallarmé (died September 9, 1898)
1962: signing of the Évian Accords recognizing the independence of Algeria and establishing a ceasefire the next day
1965: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk
1967: the giant oil tanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off Brittany, causing a major oil spill
2010: Simone Veil enters the French Academy
some birthday
Arlette Laguiller, politician born in 1940
Luc Besson, director born in 1959
The saying of the day
“Very starry firmament, not very distant weather change”
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