Tuesday Basics
Feast of St. James, apostle To learn more about St. James, go here. Today's Mass Readings On This Day in Catholic History: 325 The First Council of Nicea closed. The first ecumenical council, convened by Constantine, it rejected the Arian denial of the full divinity of Christ. 1471 St. Thomas à Kempis , medieval monk, died (b. 1380, Kempen near Cologne and Düsseldorf). 1593 France's King Henry IV converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. 1968 Pope Paul VI published his encyclical Humanae Vitae , which condemned artificial birth control methods. Birthdays: 1848 - Arthur Balfour , 33rd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1930) 1894 - Walter Brennan , American actor (The Real McCoys) (d. 1974) 1923 - Estelle Getty , American actress (Sophia in The Golden Girls) 1926 - Whitey Lockman , American baseball player 1942 - Bruce Woodley , Australian singer, guitarist and songwriter ( The Seekers - "Red Rubber Ball") 1954 - Walter Payton , American football pla...