Tuesday Highlights & Spiritual Insights

Tuesday Christmas Weekday

Today's Mass Readings for Tuesday after Epiphany

The Fifteenth Day of Christmas

Saint of the Day: St. Thorfinn

On This Day in Catholic History

482 - St. Severinus of Noricum, hermit, who preached Christianity in what is now Austria, died.

1198 - Italian cardinal Lotario di Segni was elected pope, taking the name of Innocent III (ca. 1161–1216).

1438 - The Council of Florence began at Ferrara, Italy, with the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in attendance.

1849 During the Italian Revolution of 1848-1849, a popular uprising in the Papal States deprived Pope Pius IX of his temporal powers and forced him to flee to Gaeta on the Italian Coast.

Birthdays

1735 - John Carroll, American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815)

1830 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894)

1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (d. 1934)

1883 - Patrick J. Hurley, United States Secretary of War (d. 1963)

1902 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (d. 1987)

1909 - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)

1935 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)

1938 - Bob Eubanks, American game show host (The Newlywed Game)

1953 - Bruce Sutter, American baseball player

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