Thursday Highlights and Spiritual Insights
Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr St. Lucy is Patron: against hemorrhages; authors; blind people; blindness; cutlers; dysentery; eye disease; eye problems; glaziers; hemorrhages; laborers; martyrs; peasants; Perugia, Italy; saddlers; salesmen; stained glass workers; Syracuse, Sicily; throat infections; writers. Today's Mass Readings Advent Meditation: The Daily Gospel with Fr. Philippe, O.P. On This Day in Catholic History 1124 Pope Callixtus II , whose pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy over who would control the appointment of church officials, died. 1294 After issuing a constitution giving popes the right to quit, Pope Celestine V (ca. 1215–1296) shocked the world by resigning. 1521 - Pope Sixtus V was born (d. 27 August 1590) 1545 The Council of Trent began. Birthdays 1816 - Ernst Werner von Siemens , German engineer, inventor, and industrialist (d. 1892) 1818 - Mary Todd Lincoln , First Lady of the United States (d. 1882) 1887 - Alvin York , Amer...