Tuesday Highlights & Spiritual Insights
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Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, priest and doctor Old Calendar: St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop, confessor and doctor; St. Barbara, virgin and martyr
Today's Mass Readings
Today's Advent Meditation
On This Day in Catholic History
1093 Anselm (ca. 1033/34–1109) was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury.
1110 - First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.
1154 Adrian IV (ca. 1100–1159) was elected pope.
1563 The final session of the Council of Trent concluded.
1674 French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette (1637–1675) erected a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois.
Birthdays
1868 - Jesse Burkett, baseball player (d. 1953)
1875 - Joe Corbett, baseball player (d. 1945)
1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)
1903 - Cornell Woolrich, American writer (d. 1968)
1921 - Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress
1949 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, priest and doctor Old Calendar: St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop, confessor and doctor; St. Barbara, virgin and martyr
Today's Mass Readings
Today's Advent Meditation
On This Day in Catholic History
1093 Anselm (ca. 1033/34–1109) was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury.
1110 - First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.
1154 Adrian IV (ca. 1100–1159) was elected pope.
1563 The final session of the Council of Trent concluded.
1674 French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette (1637–1675) erected a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan in Illinois.
Birthdays
1868 - Jesse Burkett, baseball player (d. 1953)
1875 - Joe Corbett, baseball player (d. 1945)
1875 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)
1903 - Cornell Woolrich, American writer (d. 1968)
1921 - Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress
1949 - Jeff Bridges, American actor
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