Wednesday Basics

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter

Saint of the Day:
St. Ubaldus, bishop and confessor

Today in Catholic History:

578 St.Brendan the Navigator, founder of a Celtic monastery in Clonfert, Ireland, died (b. ca. 484).

1204 During the Fourth Crusade Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.

1265 - Saint Simon Stock, English saint, died. (b. 1165)

1605 - Paul V becomes Pope.

1920 - In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.

Birthdays:

1611 - Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)

1718 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)

1763 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (d. 1829)

1801 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (d. 1872)

1905 - Henry Fonda, American actor (d. 1982)

1906 - Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)

1912 - Studs Terkel, American writer

1913 - Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (d. 1987)

1916 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (d. 1997)

1955 - Debra Winger, American actress

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