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Saints of the Day
'Tis the Optional Memorial of Saint Louis (1214-1270, A.K.A. King Louis IX of France), leader of the Seventh Crusade (1248-1254) & the Eighth Crusade (1270), & builder of the Sainte-Chapelle (1248, "Holy Chapel").

Commentary: Wayback Machine.

'Tis also the Optional Memorial of Saint Joseph Calasanz, Priest, Sch.P. (1557-1648, A.K.A. Josephus a Mater Dei ["Joseph of the Mother of God"]), founder of the Piarists (Sch.P.), formally the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, A.K.A. the Scolopi.

'Tis the Friday of the Twentieth Weekend in Ordinary Time (Tempus per annum, "time through the year"): Wikipedia-link.