Time Line 1909

Births

• Blessed Antoni Swiadek
• Blessed Pere Ferrer Marín
• Blessed Teresa of the Child Jesus and of Saint John of the Cross
• Venerable Lázaro Ruiz Peral

Ordinations

• Blessed Mykolai Charnetskyi

Religious Professions

Consecrations

• Archbishop Thomas P. Gilmartin

Deaths

• Blessed Ciriaco María Sancha Hervás
• Blessed Isidore Bakanja
• Saint Mary MacKillop

Venerations

Beatifications

• Saint Jean-Théophane Vénard
• Saint John Eudes
• Saint Joseph Luu

Canonizations

• Saint Clement Mary Hofbauer
• Saint Joseph Oriol

Founded

Elevations

Published

• Communium Rerum – On Saint Anselm of Aosta, by Pope Saint Pius X

Other Events

• blood grouping system developed
• first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft
• first short wave broadcast
• founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Peary’s expedition reaches North Pole
• President William Howard Taft takes office
• Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole

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