Monday Basics

The Madonna of Mt. Carmel
1730s
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Monday of the 15th week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Carmel

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Today in Catholic History:

1228 Pope Gregory IX (ca. 1143-1241), who greatly favored the new mendicant religious orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, canonized Francis of Assisi (1182-1226).

1769 Spanish Franciscan friar Father Junipero Serra (1713-1784) founded the San Diego de Alcala mission in California.

Birthdays:

1194 - Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Saint Francis of Assisi and founder of the Poor Clares (d. 1253)

1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)

1731 - Samuel Huntington, Continental Congress president (d. 1796)

1907 - Frances Horwich, aka "Miss Frances" of "Ding Dong School", American educator and television personality (d. 2001)

1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)

1960 - Terry Pendleton, American baseball player



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