At the Gaudium Mundo blog, you can learn a new Christmas Carol, in Latin, of course, for each day of the month, although on the 31st, the offering is Auld Lang Syne. Today's song is Rudolphus. You know the song. It's the one with the famous line:

"Rudolphe, naso claro nonne carrum tu duces?"

There's also a widget you can use for your site to go directly to the day's song.

On this day in history the Greek playwright Euripides may have died in the Athenian year 407/406.

"The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them." Euripides Medea. 618.

Quotations from Euripides
Euripides' Life

Euripides Picture © Clipart.com

On this day in 1817 Theodor Mommsen was born. Mommsen was a German scholar who wrote authoritatively about ancient Rome. In 1902 he won a Nobel Prize for Literature. Read more about Theodor Mommsen

Mommsen image © clipart.com.

From the last Sunday in November in 2008 until Christmas, it's Advent, time to sing Christmas Carols in Latin. Learn the Latin words to O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles), Veni, Emmanuel (O Come, Emmanuel), Once in Royal David's City (Regis olim urbe David), and Rudolphus, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Christmas Carols in Latin
Read about the birth of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels:

• Matthew
• Mark
• Luke

The 12 days of Christmas end with Epiphany