Today in History:
580 - Chinese invents toilet paper
1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1846 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah," premieres
 
A Saint's Feast Day:   St. Teresa of Jesus Jornet Ibars
 
Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Born in Catalonia, Spain, she overcame many difficulties in her youth and eventually became a teacher at Lerida. Desirous to enter the religious life, she failed to win entry into the convent at the advice of her spiritual director, decided to launch her own congregation. On January 27, 1872, at Barbastro, Spain, she began the Little Sisters of the Poor, called the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Age. Considerable zeal, she had founded by the time of death more than fifty houses for her congregation. Beatified in 1958, she was canonized in 1974 by Pope VI. 
 
Daily Quotes:
 
 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night"
   -Edgar Allen Poe

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within hin the image of a catherdral."
   -Antoine de Saint Exuperys