On the Feast Day of Saint Stephen

We didn't know, when we named our sons, that the two days after Christmas are the feast days of St. Stephen and St. John, but they are. Today is for the protomartyr ... and for Good King Wenceslas to do his miracle.
"Good King Wenceslas" is a popular Christmas carol about a king who goes out to give alms to a poor peasant on the Feast of Stephen (the second day of Christmas, December 26). During the journey, his page is about to give up the struggle against the cold weather, but is enabled to continue by the heat miraculously emanating from the king's footprints in the snow. The legend is based on life of the historical Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907-935), known in the Czech language as Svatý Václav.