This day in history - January 23

Posted 8:10pm CT Jan 23, 2008 in Minneapolis

Researched and written by Gloriscope staff

1950: The Israeli parliament (Knesset) declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

1932: Spain dissolved the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) and expropriated its property after the fall of the Spanish monarchy and proclamation of the Spanish Republic in 1931.

1926: Death of the Belgian Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, known for his resistance against the German occupation of Belgium during the World War I.

1925: A Danish law gave women access to certain priestly offices in the Danish Lutheran Church

1883: Death of the French painter and book illustrator Gustave Doré, who created the famous illustrations for an edition of the Bible and for Dante’s poetic work Divine Comedy.

This book illustration of Canto 31 from Paradise, the third volume of Dante’s Divine Comedy, shows Dante and his guide Beatrice gazing at the highest heaven, where blessed human souls are in glory  around Jesus Christ.

1867: Birth of Sergius, the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow. – He died in 1944.

1855: The government of Spain declared that Spain had broken off its relations with the Holy See in Rome (the Vatican)

1838: Birth of the German Franciscan nun Marianne Cope who worked with patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. – The patients suffered from Hansen’s disease. She died in 1918 and was the first person to be beatified by Pope Benedict XVI (in May 2005).

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