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Tuesday, Oct. 27
BLESSED BARTOLOMEO DA VICENZA
[also Bartolomeo di Breganze] (Italy, 1200-1271)
Unable to find any image online.
A Dominican who studied with St. Dominic himself; famous preacher,
especially against heresies; Palace theologian to Pope Gregory IX
and confessor to St. Louis IX of France, followed him to the Holy Land
on Crusade; named Bishop of Nimesia in Cyprus, and later of his
native Vicenza in Italy; papal legate to England and France; called
Blessed by popular veneration after his death but not beatified till 1793.



OR for 10/26-10/27/09:


At the closing of the Synodal assembly for Africa, the Pope says the Gospel must be translated
into consistent plans and their realization:
'A promised land for Africa'

Other Page 1 stories: An editorial on the Synodal assembly for Africa; the Pope addresses the Pontifical Biblical Institute on its centenary (photos in top panel); Baghdad shaken by worst terrorist bombings in 4 years - hundreds die in prelude to January parliamentary elections.



No events scheduled for the Holy Father today.

The Vatican officially announces the program for the Pope's pastoral visit to Brescia on Sunday, Nov. 8.

The Press Office releases the text of a message from Benedict XVI to Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos
of All Armenians, on the tenth anniversary of his election.

In Turin, Cardinal Severino Poletto, who met with the Holy Father at the Vatican yesterday, announced to his diocese
that Benedict XVI will visit Turin on May 2, 2010, for the new Exposition of the Holy Shroud (April 10-May 23).


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