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1964: Pope Paul VI visited the Holy Land, the first pope to do so. – In Jerusalem, he had a meeting with Athenagoras, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople.

1944: Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest, playwright, and leader of the Danish anti-Nazi resistance, was murdered by the Nazis during the German occupation of Denmark.

1929: Birth of Herbert Vorgrimler, a German Roman Catholic church theologian and Karl Rahner’s student. – His international reputation rests also on his role as advisor to the Vatican in matters relating to the Roman Catholic Church’s dialogue with atheists in sociology, philosophy, and political science.

1891: Death of Antoine Labelle (b. 1833), a Roman Catholic priest who promoted the settlement of Quebec, Canada.

1821: Death of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first U.S.-born saint of the Roman Catholic Church. – She was born 1774 in New York City, raised in the Episcopal church, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1805, founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and was canonized as a saint by Pope Paul VI in 1975.

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