Ante Diem V Dec. AUC 2758/AUC 7514

There is no Feast in the Traditional Universal Calendar for this date.

From Ted Hewitt's Group:

St Stephen the Younger

St James of the Marches

The Martyrology:

Today's

Tomorrow's, for those who recite Prime

Today in history:

AD 741, His Holness, St Gregory III ends his reign as Pope.

AD 1795, US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis. Who says jihadist attacks on the US are new?

AD 1520 Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific. And opens a whole new world for Catholicism.

AD 1937 Spanish leader Francisco Franco blockades the Spanish coast, which helps save Spain from the Reds.