Friday Highlights and Spiritual Insights
Memorial of St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor
Old Calendar: St. Ambrose
Saint of the Day: Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor (Brief Bio, Quotes, and Prayers)
Today's Mass Readings
On This Day in Catholic History
1254 Pope Innocent IV, who became pope in the middle of the tremendous controversy with Holy Roman emperor Frederick II, died (b. Sinibaldo Fieschi ca. 1195, Genoa; became pope in 1243).
1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
Birthdays
521 - Saint Columba, apostle to Scotland, was born in Donegal (d. 9 June 597, Iona).
1598 - Sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, best known for "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa," was born in Naples (d. 28 November 1680).
1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)
1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
1952 - Susan Collins, American politician, the junior U.S. Senator from Maine and a Republican.
1956 - Larry Bird, American basketball player
1967 - Tino Martinez, American baseball player
Old Calendar: St. Ambrose
Saint of the Day: Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor (Brief Bio, Quotes, and Prayers)
Today's Mass Readings
On This Day in Catholic History
1254 Pope Innocent IV, who became pope in the middle of the tremendous controversy with Holy Roman emperor Frederick II, died (b. Sinibaldo Fieschi ca. 1195, Genoa; became pope in 1243).
1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
Birthdays
521 - Saint Columba, apostle to Scotland, was born in Donegal (d. 9 June 597, Iona).
1598 - Sculptor and architect Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, best known for "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa," was born in Naples (d. 28 November 1680).
1873 - Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947)
1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
1952 - Susan Collins, American politician, the junior U.S. Senator from Maine and a Republican.
1956 - Larry Bird, American basketball player
1967 - Tino Martinez, American baseball player
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