Saturday Basics

New water lily from our pond
July, 2007

On This Day in Catholic History:

1542 Pope Paul III (1468–1549) issued the encyclical Licet ab Inuito, which instituted the Congregation of the Roman Inquisition or the Holy Office.

1773 Pope Clement XIV (1705–1774) issued the bull Dominus ac Redemptor.

Birthdays:

1414 - Pope Sixtus IV (d. 1484)

1515 - St. Philip Neri, Italian churchman (d. 1595)

1620 - Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682)

1899 - Ernest Hemingway, American Nobel Prize-winning (1954) novelist and short story writer (d. 1961)

1924 - Don Knotts, American actor (d. 2006)

1978 - Josh Hartnett, American actor

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