At some point in the early 1660’s Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625—1712) told Pope Alexander VII that he would not to be ordained as a priest. Cassini was a gentle and holy man, but he did not feel called to the priesthood even when asked by the Pope. Cassini had worked for Pope Alexander on several [...]
Category: catholic scientists
Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady
This altar piece is probably from Saint Adrian Church in Adrian, Minnesota. Check out the matching picture below the altar as well as the icon. The saint on the right might be Saint Rose of Lima? and the one on the left might be Saint Catherine of Siena. But I'm open to correction. This was [...]
Dominic was he called …
Envoy and servant sooth he seemed of Christ,For the first love made manifest in himWas the first counsel that was given by Christ. Dante, Paradiso, Canto 12 August 8 was the Feast Day of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers. I thought it would be entertaining to look up Dominican scientists and write [...]
American Sign Language is French
Modern American Sign Language has French origins. Two priests, Abbe Charles Michel de l’Epee and the Abbe Sicard were the proximate cause. Abbe de l’Epee had founded a school for the deaf in Paris in the late 1700’s. Abbe Sicard ran it after he died. When Thomas Gallaudet, an American who was trying to found [...]
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