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Feast of St. James, apostle

To learn more about St. James, go here.

Today's Mass Readings

On This Day in Catholic History:

325 The First Council of Nicea closed. The first ecumenical council, convened by Constantine, it rejected the Arian denial of the full divinity of Christ.

1471 St. Thomas à Kempis, medieval monk, died (b. 1380, Kempen near Cologne and Düsseldorf).

1593 France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

1968 Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Humanae Vitae, which condemned artificial birth control methods.

Birthdays:

1848 - Arthur Balfour, 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930)

1894 - Walter Brennan, American actor (The Real McCoys) (d. 1974)

1923 - Estelle Getty, American actress (Sophia in The Golden Girls)

1926 - Whitey Lockman, American baseball player

1942 - Bruce Woodley, Australian singer, guitarist and songwriter (The Seekers - "Red Rubber Ball")

1954 - Walter Payton, American football player, ("The Refrigerator") (d. 1999)

1971 - Billy Wagner, American baseball player

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