Melchior Cano is accused of being a heretic in disguise, and so he writes to Charles V, whose confessor he was.
1558
St. Francis Borgia preaches the eulogy for the Emperor Charles V at Valladolid.
1761
At Lisbon, the martyrdom of Fr. Gabriel Malagrida, aged seventy two. Pombal's inquisitors had found him guilty of heresy in a life of St. Anne written not by him, but by the ex- Capuchin, Norbert. He died by strangulation and the flames.
1851
In Rome at the Basilica of St. Peter, Pope Pius IX beatiï¬ed Peter Claver, "The apostle of the slaves."
1996
Henri Nouwen dies, age 64 in Holland. He was a spiritual writer and teacher, and at the end he lived and worked with L’Arche communities. Jesuit alumnus.
1999
Piet Schoonenberg, S.J. dies, age 87. Theologian. New Dutch Catechism, The Christ.
