Boxing Day Postcard

In which Your Diarist puts off cleaning the kitchen from last night's revels

Christmas liturgy, Orthodox cathedral in Budapest

Happy Feast of St. Stephen! Today is the feast of the church’s first martyr. Acts 6: 8-15 tells us what happened to him:

Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. ⁹ Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it wa…