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January 6, 2017
“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying “Where is he that is born King of the Jews?

October 28, 2016
October 28 is the feast day of Saints Simon and Jude (also known as Thaddeus).

September 30, 2016
September 30 marks the Feast of St Jerome, and is the date of the his death in 420 AD.

February 17, 2016
In a strange twist of fate, the painter Giordano Bruno Lattuada died in Monza on 17 February 1978, the same day that his namesake was burned at the stake by the Catholic Inquisition in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.

January 20, 2016
Today (20 January) is the feast day of St. Sebastian.

December 27, 2015
Today (27 December) is the Feast Day of St. John the Evangelist.

December 13, 2015
13 December is the Feast of St. Lucy of Syracuse.

October 18, 2015
October 18 is the Feast day of St. Luke , gospel writer and patron saint of artists, owing to the Christian tradition that he painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.

October 15, 2015
October 15 is the Feast Day of St. Teresa of Avila , the Spanish mystic who died on 4 October 1582 and was canonized in 1622.

September 17, 2015
17 September is the Feast Day of the Stigmatization of St. Francis .