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Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, Religious

Patron of: automobile drivers, cab or taxi drivers, death of children, lay people, motorists, people ridiculed for their piety, Roman housewives, widows.

Friday of the Second Week in Lent - Reflection & Prayer

Today in Catholic History

395 St. Gregory of Nyssa, Cappadocian father and bishop, died (b. ca. 335).

Birthdays

1568 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d.1591 )

1856 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)

1900 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973 )

1932 - Keely Smith, American singer

1986 - Brittany Snow, American actress

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