Fuel for the Fire
Optional Memorial of St. Stanislaus
Today's Mass Readings
Today's Homily: Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP Church of the Incarnation, Irving, TX
Saint of the Day: St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr
On This Day in Catholic History
1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1963 -- Pope John XXIII put forth his encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty."
1997 -- In Italy, fire damaged the 500-year-old San Giovanni Cathedral, home of the Shroud of Turin, which some consider Christ's burial cloth.
2004 -- Pope John Paul II celebrated Easter Mass with calls for world leaders to resolve conflicts in Iraq, the Holy Land and Africa.
Famous Birthday:
1928 -- age 80 -- Ethel Kennedy, widow of the late Robert Kennedy. Born in Chicago, Illinois to Ann Brannack, a Roman Catholic, and George Skakel, a Protestant, Ethel was raised Catholic in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Today's Mass Readings
Today's Homily: Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP Church of the Incarnation, Irving, TX
Saint of the Day: St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr
On This Day in Catholic History
1079 - Bishop Stanislaus of Krakow is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.
1963 -- Pope John XXIII put forth his encyclical "On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty."
1997 -- In Italy, fire damaged the 500-year-old San Giovanni Cathedral, home of the Shroud of Turin, which some consider Christ's burial cloth.
2004 -- Pope John Paul II celebrated Easter Mass with calls for world leaders to resolve conflicts in Iraq, the Holy Land and Africa.
Famous Birthday:
1928 -- age 80 -- Ethel Kennedy, widow of the late Robert Kennedy. Born in Chicago, Illinois to Ann Brannack, a Roman Catholic, and George Skakel, a Protestant, Ethel was raised Catholic in Greenwich, Connecticut.
According to multiple sources of information, King Boleslaw HIMSELF killed St. Stanislaw. It is said that those who were sent to do the deed "chickened out."
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