Monday Basics: Today's Highlights

This Day in Catholic History:

258 - The Bishop of Rome, Pope Sixtus II, was captured in the catacombs. He was executed on his bishop's chair.

1221 - Saint Dominic, founder of the Dominican order, died (b. 1170).

1651 - Francois Fenelon, Roman Catholic priest, was born in Perigord, France (d. 7 January 1715).

2000 - The Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.

Birthdays:

1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet (d. 1892)

1868 - Paul Claudel, French poet (d. 1955)

1911 - Lucille Ball, American actress (d. 1989)

1917 - Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997)

1941 - Ray Culp, American baseball player

1949 - Clarence Richard Silva, Catholic Bishop of Honolulu

1957 - Bob Horner, American baseball player

1965 - David Robinson, American basketball player

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