Wednesday Highlights
Autumn Colors Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time Today's Mass Readings On This Day in Catholic History: 680 The Third Council of Constantinople opened under Pope Leo II. During its eighteen sessions (held until September 681) the Council condemned Monothelitism (a heresy that taught that Christ's will was only divine and not human). Birthdays 1867 - Maria Sklodowska-Curie , Polish-born chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics and in chemistry (d. 1934) 1918 - Billy Graham , American evangelist 1922 - Al Hirt , American trumpeter (d. 1999) 1926 - Dame Joan Sutherland , Australian operatic soprano 1936 - Dame Gwyneth Jones , Welsh soprano 1938 - Jim Kaat , American baseball player 1942 - Johnny Rivers , American singer and composer 1959 - Billy Gillispie , American basketball coach Saint of the Day: St. Maura