This Day in History

June 19, 2025
Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi (Body of Christ or Corpus Domini) celebrated in the Western Church since 1246 on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday .

June 15, 2025
Today is Trinity Sunday, celebrated in the Western Church on the first Sunday after Pentecost as a day to focus on the doctrine that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit at once.

June 8, 2025
The Feast Day of Pentecost is celebrated in the Western Church as the day when the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus’s disciples, giving them “tongues of fire” that enabled them to preach the gospel in multiple languages.

May 29, 2025
Today is the feast day of the Ascension, marking the last appearance of Jesus on earth after his Resurrection at Easter.

April 18, 2025
Today is Good Friday, the anniversary of Jesus’ death on the cross.

March 4, 2025
Martedì Grasso

December 26, 2023
Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai was born in Florence on December 26, 1403

March 20, 2023
At midday on the Spring Equinox, light streams in through the twenty-seven foot diameter oculus of the Pantheon and aligns perfectly with the doorway.

September 17, 2021
Sculptor Giovanni Bastianini was born near Fiesole on 17 September 1830.

June 15, 2021
On this day (15 June) in 1927, Ugo Eugenio Pratt (known as Hugo Pratt), the comic book artist and illustrator, was born in Rimini.