Tuesday Highlights & Spiritual Insights
Tuesday Christmas Weekday Today's Mass Readings for Tuesday after Epiphany The Fifteenth Day of Christmas Saint of the Day: St. Thorfinn On This Day in Catholic History 482 - St. Severinus of Noricum, hermit, who preached Christianity in what is now Austria, died. 1198 - Italian cardinal Lotario di Segni was elected pope, taking the name of Innocent III (ca. 1161–1216). 1438 - The Council of Florence began at Ferrara, Italy, with the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches in attendance. 1849 During the Italian Revolution of 1848-1849, a popular uprising in the Papal States deprived Pope Pius IX of his temporal powers and forced him to flee to Gaeta on the Italian Coast. Birthdays 1735 - John Carroll , American Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1815) 1830 - Hans von Bülow , German pianist and composer (d. 1894) 1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday , American publisher (d. 1934) 1883 - Patrick J. Hurley , United States Secretary of War (d. 1963) 1902 - Carl Rogers , American psychologist (d....