Monday Basics

Monday of the Twelveth Week in Ordinary Time

Today's Mass Readings

Saint for the Day: St. William of Vercelli

Today in Catholic History:

1115 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) founded the fourth house of the Cistercians in Clairvaux, France, and was also made its first abbot.

1987 Pope John Paul II received Austrian President Kurt Waldheim at the Vatican, a meeting fraught with controversy because of allegations that Waldheim had hidden a Nazi past.

Birthdays:

1612 - John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)

1903 - George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950) He wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

1903 - Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990) She played the part of the mother of Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette .

1925 - June Lockhart, American actress ( Lassie , Lost in Space)

1945 - Carly Simon, American singer

1947 - Jimmie Walker, American TV actor (best known for his role on Good Times)

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