Tuesday Basics: Mass Readings, Saint of the Day, Today in Catholic History, Birthdays


Today's Mass Readings: Readings for June 19

Today in Catholic History:

325 The closing session of the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council in the history of the church, took place.

1535 Carthusian monks were butchered by Henry VIII at Tyburn. They were among those who rejected Henry's claim to headship of the English church. Their bishop was butchered June 22 of the same year.

1902 Lord Acton, English Parliamentarian, Catholic thinker and historian, died (b. 10 January 1834).

1977 Pope Paul VI canonized the 19th-century Redemptorist John Nepomucene Neumann (1811–1860), fourth Bishop of Philadelphia, who was known for his development of the parochial school. Neumann became the first American male to achieve sainthood in the Catholic church.

Birthdays:

1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)

1897 - Moe Howard, American actor (d. 1975) (The Three Stooges)

1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate, first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, Hawaii (d.
1968
)

1902 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (d. 1977)

1903 - Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)

1914 - Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)

1928 - Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer (The Four Seasons)

1930 - Gena Rowlands, American actress

1953 - Larry Dunn, American musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)

1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer -TV personality (''American Idol'')

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