Daily Update: Thursday, April 25th, 2024

Today is a Major Rogation Day in the Church; it is also the Feast of Saint Mark, Evangelist (died c. 68) and the Optional Memorial of Saint Pedro de San José Betancur, Founder (died 1667). And today is World Penguin Day, and the first day of the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. 

Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel

This is a biography of the Italian polymath Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642); his life is shown through documents and letters, but especially through the letters written to him by his eldest daughter, who was a nun in a cloistered convent. This was a very good book, and one that I very much was happy to read.