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
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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