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July 2009

July 25, 2009
Today marks the death of Dr. Euphemia Lofton Haynes, the first African-American Woman to earn...
July 25, 2009
Today also marks the death of German Catholic poet and author Elizabeth Langgässer, whose writings...
July 25, 2009
Today also marks the death of poet, author and educator Sister Madaleva Wolff, C.S.C., and...
July 25, 2009
On this day in 1822, the Feast of St. James the Greater, Bishop John Connolly...
July 25, 2009
Today in 1869, the cornerstone was laid for St. John’s College, Brooklyn, which opened its...
July 25, 2009
On this day two papal encyclicals were issued. In 1898, Pope Leo XIII issued Caritatis...
July 25, 2009
Today marks the death of Pope Innocent VIII, and the following is taken from the...
July 25, 2009
Today also marks the death of Thomas à Kempis , and the following is taken...
July 25, 2009
The Feast of St. James the Greater makes it a good time to share this...
July 24, 2009
Saint Kinga of Poland (also known as Cunegunda, Kunigunda, Kunegunda, Cunegundes, Kioga, Zinga; Polish: Święta...
July 24, 2009
How can you resist a saint with a name like this?Born to a peasant family,...
July 24, 2009
Father Brown (The Detective in the United States) is a 1954 mystery comedy film. It...
July 24, 2009
Today marks the Feast of St. Sharbel Makhlouf, and the following is taken from americancatholic.org:Although...
July 24, 2009
O consuming Fire,Spirit of Love,“come upon me,”and create in my soul a kind of incarnation...
July 24, 2009
Today also marks the death of Cardinal Joseph Cardjin, and the following is taken from...
July 24, 2009
Today marks the death of General James A. Mulligan, and the following is taken from...
July 23, 2009
The most celebrated saint of the Northern kingdoms, born about 1303; died 23 July, 1373....
July 23, 2009
Today in 1971 the Carmelite Community of the Word was founded. The following is taken...
July 23, 2009
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me...
July 23, 2009
Our Lady of Thailand, a rendition from the 1950's.
July 23, 2009
Today in 1816 marks the founding of the Marists by Father Jean Claude Colin (seen...
July 22, 2009
Located in Washington, D.C., Catholic University's Archives is one of the most dynamic and pro-active...
July 22, 2009
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the...
July 22, 2009
Major General Edward Otho Cresap Ord was born in 1818. He graduated from West Point...
July 22, 2009
Today marks the death of Bishop John J. Chanche, first Bishop in the state of...
July 22, 2009
Today in 1884 marks the founding of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia in...
July 22, 2009
Today in 1968 marks the death of Giovannino Guareschi, whose popular Don Camillo novels featured...
July 21, 2009
Born at Brindisi in 1559; died at Lisbon on 22 July, 1619. In baptism he...
July 21, 2009
Good example is the most efficacious apostolate. You must be as lighted lanterns and shine...
July 21, 2009
Today marks the death of Father Charles Randolph Uncles (seen on the right), the first...
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