Monday Highlights and Spiritual Insights

Image: Saint Raymond of Penafort, patron saint of lawyers, canon lawyers, schools of law, and medical record librarians.

Optional Memorial of St. Raymond of Penafort, priest

Today's Mass Readings

The Fourteenth Day of Christmas

On This Day in Catholic History

1844 Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a French peasant girl who had several visions of the Virgin Mary in a cave near the Gave River close to her birthplace of Lourdes, was born (d. April 16, 1879).

1502 - Pope Gregory XIII was born. (d. 1585)

Birthdays

1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)

1827 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)

1873 - Adolph Zukor, Hungarian producer (d. 1976)

1873 - Charles Peguy, French poet, essayist, and editor, Catholic convert, (d. 1914)

1934 - Charlie Jenkins, American runner

1942 - Jim Lefebvre, American baseball player and manager

1945 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)

1948 - Kenny Loggins, American singer

1966 - Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American publicist (d. 1999)

1976 - Éric Serge Gagné, Canadian baseball player -- a pitcher who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers.

1990 - Liam Aiken, American actor

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