1564 Pope Pius IV orders all holders of ecclesiastical office to agree to the Council of Trent's Tridentine Profession of Faith as the new, final definition of the Catholic faith. Baptists are banished from Massachussetts. A meteor shower shakes up many New Englanders who believe the end of the world has come. 1907 Death of Francis Thompson, the English poet who wrote the Hound of Heaven showing how God in grace pursued him, after he had wrecked his life with opium addiction. He had trained for the priesthood.
Power is the reward of sadness.
Who suffers, conquers. The Roman Catholic church names Francis Xavier Cabrini, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, the first American saint. In North Africa in the fourth century when the Roman empire was still powerful, a Christian girl named Monica and her non-Christian husband, had a son named Augustine who was born on this day, November 13, 354. Augustine was destined to become one of the most important church leaders of all time. As a growing boy, his mother instructed him in the ways of the Lord, but Augustine ignored her.