Posted 3:50pm CT Jan 16, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

1975: Assassination attempt against the Catholic Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, Raúl Cardinal Silva Henríquez SDB (1907-1999). – He was a strong defender of civil rights during General Pinochet’s dictature in Chile.

1918: Birth of Marcelo González Martín, Spanish Catholic cardinal and primate of the Catholic Church in Spain. – He promoted Catholic higher education, a wider Catholic involvement in the Spanish culture and society through mass media, and a process for beatification and canonization of Catholic martyrs who were murdered during the Spanish Civil War. He died in 2004.

1916: The Association of Italian Catholic Scouts was founded.

1711: Death of Joseph Vaz, the Indian-born Catholic priest and missionary to Ceylon. – Vaz was born in Goa, India, in 1651, where he studied theology at the Jesuit college and where he joined the Oratorians. He spent much of his life in Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), where he was rebuilding churches. He is called “Apostle of Ceylon” and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo in 1995.

1581 The English Parliament declared Roman Catholicism illegal in England.

2006: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (born 1938), a United Methodist, became the president of Liberia and Africa’s first elected female head of state. – She attends the First United Methodist Church in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.

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