Archive for March, 2009
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Guido, abbot (of Pomposa)
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Balbina, virgin
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Acasius, bishop (of Antioch)
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
St. Guy (or Witen), Abbot at Ferrara, 1046
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
St. Benjamin, Deacon, martyr, 424
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Commemoration of John Donne, priest
Donne (rhymes with “sun”) was born in 1573 (his father died in 1576) into a Roman Catholic family, and from 1584 to 1594 was educated at Oxford and Cambridge and Lincoln’s Inn (this last a highly regarded law school). He became an Anglican (probably around 1594) and aimed at a career in government. He joined […]
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
On This Day
1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV 1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews 1644 Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara 1745 Jews are expelled from Prague 1787 English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: ‘When the witness and the fruit of […]