- ...that the only elements of the Nativity of Jesus in art (example pictured) to span the whole history of its depiction are the baby, the ox and the ass?
- ...that English missionary Andrew White, SJ, the "Apostle of Maryland", celebrated the first Catholic Mass in the original Thirteen Colonies on March 25, 1634 on St. Clement's Island?
- ... that Pope Benedict XIV arranged for Jonathan Sisson's instruments to be installed in the Bologna Academy?
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