Friday Basics
Optional Memorial of St. Frances of Rome, Religious Patron of: automobile drivers, cab or taxi drivers, death of children, lay people, motorists, people ridiculed for their piety, Roman housewives, widows. Friday of the Second Week in Lent - Reflection & Prayer Today in Catholic History 395 St. Gregory of Nyssa , Cappadocian father and bishop, died (b. ca. 335). Birthdays 1568 - Aloysius Gonzaga , Italian saint (d.1591 ) 1856 - Eddie Foy , American singer and dancer (d. 1928) 1900 - Howard Aiken , American computing pioneer (d. 1973 ) 1932 - Keely Smith , American singer 1986 - Brittany Snow , American actress