Thursday Highlights and Spiritual Insights
Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr
St. Lucy is Patron: against hemorrhages; authors; blind people; blindness; cutlers; dysentery; eye disease; eye problems; glaziers; hemorrhages; laborers; martyrs; peasants; Perugia, Italy; saddlers; salesmen; stained glass workers; Syracuse, Sicily; throat infections; writers.
On This Day in Catholic History
1124 Pope Callixtus II, whose pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy over who would control the appointment of church officials, died.
1294 After issuing a constitution giving popes the right to quit, Pope Celestine V (ca. 1215–1296) shocked the world by resigning.
1521 - Pope Sixtus V was born (d. 27 August 1590)
1545 The Council of Trent began.
Birthdays
1816 - Ernst Werner von Siemens, German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892)
1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
1925 - Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian
1959 - Johnny Whitaker, American actor; he played 6-year-old Jody Davis on Family Affair from 1966-1971
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