Friesland

So, I mean, if we think back to her background, you know, when she was a child, she suffered these terrible tragedies.

I mean, her father was actually quite well off when she was growing up in Leovarden, so the capital of Friesland.

He made hats for a while.

He had money and he lavished her with a goat cart and bought her very...

His estate of Morilli he bestowed on the Abbey of Fontenelle, or Saint Vendrille in Normandy, He was chosen and consecrated Archbishop of Sens in 682, which diocese he governed two years and a half, with great zeal and sanctity.

A tender compassion for the blindness of the idolaters of Friesland, and the example of the English zealous preachers in those parts, moved him to resign his bishopric with proper advice, and after a treat at Fontenelle to enter Friesland in quality of a poor missionary priest.

He baptized great multitudes, among them a son of King Rodbod, and drew the people from the barbarous custom of sacrificing men to idols.

On a certain occasion, one Ovorn, having been selected as a victim of a sacrifice to the heathen gods, St. Wulfran earnestly begged his life of King Rodbod, but the people ran tumultuously to the palace and would not suffer what they called a sacrilege.

St. Ludger.

Bishop.

St. Ludger was born in Friesland about the year 743.

His father, a nobleman of the first rank, at the child's own request, committed him very young to the care of St. Gregory, the disciple of St. Boniface, and his successor in the government of the See of Utrecht.

And it also reminded me of an incident that we had in the Tweede Kamer earlier this week.

There was a debate on infrastructure, I believe, and one of the speaking MPs representing one of the parties happened to be Frisian and his question related to Friesland.

So he asked if he could ask his question in the Frisian language, which is, of course, an official language in the Netherlands.

It's the second language.

And then all of a sudden it appeared that all the other participating MPs were also Frisians.

So for some reason, this whole debate was held in Frisian.

And the chair of the Tweede Kamer, Tom Kampe, who isn't from Friesland, he didn't know what they were saying, but he could also not, you know, request them to change the language because they were just speaking in an official language.

So that was a brilliant moment in the Tweede Kamer.

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So Claudette Hawkes is saying there is an interesting project in Friesland in the Netherlands to collect stories about how people experience local and regional smells.

And she shared the link with us.

So brilliant.

We've all been welcomed.

And as a Dutch Reformed church, the Freese in Friesland and the Dutch, they were barbarians over the borders of the Roman Empire.

They've all been brought in.

And third, why does Isaiah have to take his clothes off for three years? Third and finally, in the year that the commander in chief who was sent by Sargon.

Bas talks eloquently about how his parents' momentous decision has left an indelible mark on his own life.

On an early summer's Friday afternoon in the green, watery landscape of Friesland in the north of the Netherlands, a motor caravan sits on the concrete dock of a yachting marina.

Hello.

Hi.

Bauer Brauer is a Dutch photographer, writer and illustrator known for his quiet and black and white observations of everyday life.

His long-term project, Postcards from Friesland, has won multiple international awards.

He's a member of the Street Photography Collective, UP, and has published multiple books through Chemistry Publishing.

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Bauer to the Street Life Podcast.

After the failed risings and Alba's arrival, many fled and some took to the sea.

By 1568, the first ships were working the waters off Friesland.

Perhaps 20 ships, perhaps 1,200 men, most of them not gentlemen at all, but seamen, laborers, and craftsmen.

You may have heard that these were foreign pirates.

And on good news, we're also going to be talking about the state of the fundraiser for Dr. Sam Bailey.

Now, we've also got a report on the up and coming court case in the Netherlands, in Leeuwarden in Friesland on Thursday, which is where plaintiffs have taken civil action against Bill Gates and others.

So I'll have a particular update on that.

But let's kick off with you, Charles, and this amazing statement by Rowley Walker, really about prepare for war.

And there's obviously lots more concerning exactly what it is that the comments of Rowley Walker actually pertain to.

Okay, Charles, thank you very much.

Now, I'm going to move on to the fact that Thursday this week in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands, we have an extremely important civil litigation court case.

This is when a number of individuals are taking Bill Gates, the Netherlands state former Prime Minister Rutte, and at least 14 others, taking them to court for damage and that was meted out under the COVID-19 vaccination and lockdown programme.