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September 17, 2016
September 17 is the Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi.

May 17, 2016
The finale of a famed Florentine: Early Renaissance painter Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, died 17 May 1510.

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

November 30, 2015
Painter Francesco Granacci died on 30 November 1543 in Florence.

July 14, 2015
Angelo Ambrogini, better known as Poliziano was born on 14 July 1454 (d. 24 September 1494) in Montepulciano.

July 2, 2015
2 July is the Feast of the Visitation , which is recounted in Luke 1:39-57 .

January 11, 2015
Domenico Ghirlandaio died on 11 January 1494 in Florence.

October 3, 2014
October 3 marks the anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi in 1226.

September 24, 2014
The classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, known as Poliziano, died on 24 September 1494 at the age of 40.

January 6, 2014
Today is the Feast day of the Epiphany.