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Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, bishop
Old Calendar: St. Nicholas, bishop and confessor

Happy Feast Day of St. Nicholas!

Today's Mass Readings

On This Day in Catholic History

1273 Saint Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274) ceased writing following a tremendous mystical experience while conducting Mass. He suspended his work on his Summa Theologica. “I can do no more,” he told his servant. “Such things have been revealed to me that all that I have written seems to me as so much straw. Now I await the end of my life.”

1352 Pope Clement VI died (b. 1291, France). He was elected pope on May 7, 1342 at Avignon, where he died.

1964 The Roman Catholic hierarchy in both England and Wales authorized joint prayers with other churches.

Birthdays:

1642 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703), Johann Sebastian's first cousin once removed.

1886 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918)

1896 - Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)

1900 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)

1903 - Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player (d. 1946)

1904 - Ève Curie French writer (d. 2007) She was the second daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother, Madame Curie, in 1937. She was dubbed "the girl with radium eyes".

1945 - Larry Bowa, baseball player and Major League manager

1948 - JoBeth Williams, American actress and director

1953 - Gary Ward, baseball player

1955 - Steven Wright, American comedian

1971 - Ryan White, American AIDS activist; a hemophiliac who became infected with HIV from a tainted blood treatment in 1984 and was given six months to live (d. 1990)

1972 - Rick Short, baseball player, an alumnus of Western IL University
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Comments

  1. Micki12/9/07, 5:48 AM

    Knowing that I'm all about pictures and holy cards I just must tell you that this is the best picture/holy card of St. Nicholas that I've ever seen. Thanks for posting it along with great writings.

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  2. Jean Heimann12/9/07, 4:16 PM

    Thanks, Micki! You really have some gorgeous holy cards at your blog, so I am pleased that you like this.

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