July 16th – Some Things about Today in History I Find Interesting

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1194 – Clare of Assisi, the Italian founder of the order of Poor Clares was born.  She died in 1253 and was canonized in 1255.  She once write, “Look, look on Jesus, poor and crucified,look on this Holy One, who for your love has died,and remember as you contemplate the sacred mysteries, this Jesus whom you gaze upon, loves you most tenderly.”

1821 – Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, was born. She said, ““To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one’s own heart – this is the sanity and perfection of living.”

1944 – German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: ‘One has to live for some time in a community to understand how Christ is"formed" in it (Gal 4:19).”