Oct 272008
Births
- Blessed Alois Andritzki
- Blessed Antoni Beszta-Borowski
- Blessed Antoni Leszczewicz
- Blessed Eustáquio van Lieshout
- Blessed Francesco Pianzola
- Blessed Franz Jägerstätter
- Blessed Grzegorz Boleslaw Frackowiak
- Blessed Lojze Grozde
- Blessed Mary Restituta Kafka
- Blessed Innocent of Berzo
- Saint Francesco Fogolla
- Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
- Saint Vincenza María López y Vicuña
Founded
Elevations
Other Events
- release of The Song of Bernadette, a film telling the story of Saint Bernadette Soubirous and Our Lady of Lourdes
- USS Dorchester torpedoed by a German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives, four them chaplains, one a Catholic priest, who gave up their life jackets to shipmates; Congress afterward to designated 3 February as Four Chaplains Day
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