Wednesday Highlights and Spiritual Insights


Wednesday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time Old Calendar: St. Raymund of Penafort, confessor; St. Emerentiana, virgin and martyr

On This Day in Catholic History

1789 - A Catholic academy, now Georgetown University, was founded by Father John Carroll in Washington, D.C., as the first Roman Catholic college in America.

Birthdays

1832 - Edouard Manet, French painter, impressionism, (d.1883)

1855 - John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)

1898 - Randolph Scott, American actor (d. 1987)

1907 - Dan Duryea, American actor, The Pride of the Yankees (1942) (d. 1968)

1919 - Ernie Kovacs, American Author, actor, comedian, composer and producer

1948 - Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)

1979 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player

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