Ronny Peeters

BIN Coördinator Valaar Wilrijk
Vertegenwoordiger Vzw Medic
Radioamateur ON2ARP

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View of the city of Antwerp
Jan Wildens, ca 1610

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Together with the BBC Amateur Radio Group, we are marking the closure of BBC Radio 4’s Long Wave service on 198kHz.

The special event station GB1500M will be active from today until Sunday 28 June. Three radio clubs will also be commemorating the closure by activating special call signs.

Find out more by going to https://t.co/bjv8OweaFV

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The Lutenist
Hendrik Sorgh, 1661

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People often forget, but Ghent was once one of the largest cities in Europe. In the late medieval period the city was the second largest city North of the Alps after Paris and was even more populated than London.

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23rd April is the feast of St George. Here is the Garter King wearing a tabard with the royal arms and crown, kneeling before St George

BL Stowe 594; 'William Bruges's Garter Book'); c. 1430- c. 1440 (before 1450); England, S. E. (probably London); f.5v @BLMedieval

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Gospel of the Day (John 6,44-51)

Jesus said to the crowds: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets: 'They shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."

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De verloochening van Petrus
(The Denial of St. Peter)
Gerard Seghers, ca 1623

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Sint-Bernardusabdij in Hemiksem
(The St. Bernard Abbey in Hemiksem)
Jan Wildens, 1616

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Gezicht op Oostende
(View of Ostende)
Robert van den Hoecke, ca 1650

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Wintercarnaval in een klein Vlaams stadje
(Winter carnival in a small Flemish town)
Peeter Gijsels, ca 1650

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Interior of a Gothic Church
Dirck Van Delen, 1641

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Washing day in ancient Pompeii.

[Father V @father_rmv]

Saint Hermenegild was a Visigothic prince who lived in the late sixth century in what is now Spain. He was the eldest son of King Leovigild, ruler of the Visigothic kingdom, which followed the Arian heresy that denied the full divinity of Christ. Raised in this belief along with his brother Reccared, Hermenegild was given a share of royal authority and placed in command in the southern region around Seville.

In 579 he married Ingund, a Frankish princess and devout Catholic. Her influence, along with the guidance of Saint Leander, the bishop of Seville, led Hermenegild to convert to orthodox Catholicism. This change of faith angered his father, especially as Leovigild and his second wife were zealous Arians. When Hermenegild refused to return to Arianism, conflict erupted. He rebelled against his father, seeking to protect Catholics in the kingdom and allying temporarily with Byzantine forces. His revolt centered in Seville but ultimately failed after a prolonged siege. Betrayed by his allies and captured, he was stripped of his royal status, imprisoned, and exiled.

While in prison, Hermenegild faced intense pressure to abandon his new faith. On Easter in 585, his father sent an Arian bishop offering freedom and restoration if Hermenegild would receive communion from him. Hermenegild refused, declaring he could not accept the sacrament from a heretic. Enraged, Leovigild ordered his execution. Hermenegild was beheaded that day, choosing death over compromise. Some accounts describe him as wearing a hairshirt and praying fervently in chains before the end.

Contemporary chroniclers sometimes viewed his death as the result of political rebellion, but Pope Gregory the Great, in his Dialogues, presented it as true martyrdom for the Catholic faith. Gregory noted that Hermenegild's sacrifice inspired his brother Reccared, who later succeeded their father, converted to Catholicism, and led the entire Visigothic people into the Church at the Third Council of Toledo in 589. This marked the end of Arian dominance in Spain.

Hermenegild's feast day is April 13. He is venerated as a martyr and patron of Seville. His story, canonized formally in the sixteenth century, stands as an example of unwavering fidelity to religious truth amid family division and royal power. Though his rebellion mixed faith with politics, later tradition emphasized his refusal to betray the Eucharist as the core of his witness. His death helped pave the way for Spain's embrace of Catholicism, shaping the religious identity of the region for centuries.

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Vanitas Still Life
Pieter Claesz, 1630

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Gospel of the Day (John 20,19-31)

On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, «Peace be with you.»
When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.
(Jesus) said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained."
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands and put my finger into the nailmarks and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
Now a week later his disciples were again inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, although the doors were locked, and stood in their midst and said, "Peace be with you."
Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but believe."
Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!"
Jesus said to him, "Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of (his) disciples that are not written in this book.
But these are written that you may (come to) believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name.

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Gospel of the Day (Mark 16,9-15)

When Jesus had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons.
She went and told his companions who were mourning and weeping.
When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they did not believe.
After this he appeared in another form to two of them walking along on their way to the country.
They returned and told the others; but they did not believe them either.
(But) later, as the eleven were at table, he appeared to them and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart because they had not believed those who saw him after he had been raised.
He said to them, "Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature."

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A young boy with a owl
Willem Van Mieris

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Gospel of the Day (John 21,1-14)

Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself in this way.
Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee's sons, and two others of his disciples.
Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We also will come with you." So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore; but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to them, "Children, have you caught anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."
So he said to them, "Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something." So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish.
So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord." When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his garment, for he was lightly clad, and jumped into the sea.
The other disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore, only about a hundred yards, dragging the net with the fish.
When they climbed out on shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it and bread.
Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you just caught."
So Simon Peter went over and dragged the net ashore full of one hundred fifty-three large fish. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, "Come, have breakfast." And none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they realized it was the Lord.
Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish.
This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead.

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