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"He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."

(Luke 4: 16 - 19)

Saint of the Day: St William, Archbishop of Bourges

On This Day in Catholic History

236 - Fabian was elected bishop of Rome. He served until January 20, 250, when he became the first martyr under Decius, the emperor who initiated an Empire-wide persecution of Christians.

681 - Agatho, pope from 678 to 681, died (b. ca. 577).

1276 - Pope Gregory X died (b. ca. 1210).

1607 - St. Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary among Native Americans in North America, was born (d. October 18, 1646).
Birthdays

1828 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892) the second vicar apostolic of the Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands — now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu — from 1881 to 1892.

1840 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)

1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)

1865 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)

1873 - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)

1938 - Willie McCovey, American baseball player

1943 - Jim Croce, American singer - songwriter (d. 1973)

1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer

1973 - Glenn Robinson, American basketball player

1976 - Adam Kennedy, American baseball personality

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