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St. Katharine Drexel Is Canonized: October 1, 2000
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. “Why not become a missionary yourself, my child?” With these words, Pope Leo XIII...
The Imperial Diet Proclaims the “Religious Peace of Augsburg”: September 25, 1555
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Charles V’s last years were spent trying to break the power of the...
The U.S. Constitution Is Signed: September 17, 1787
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. In the hot, humid weather of a Philadelphia summer, delegates wrangled, tempers...
Napoleon Triumphantly Enters a Deserted Moscow: September 16, 1812
Unlike other cities he had conquered, Moscow sent no delegation of citizens to greet Napoleon.
The Mayflower Sets Sail for America: September 6, 1620
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. In a city in Holland called Leyden lived a colony of Englishmen. These English...
St. Junípero Serra Sails for America: August 30, 1749
Junípero Serra was born on the island of Mallorca off the Mediterranean coast of Spain on November 24, 1713.