It happened on MAY 2

Today is the liturgical memorial of St. Athanasius of Alexandria (295-373), bishop and Doctor of the Church. In his work De Incarnatione Verbi, he refuted the Epicurean atomists, who maintained the world could have spontaneously sprung into being by chance, by elucidating the signs of Divine Providence discernable in creation (Chapter I, nn. 2-3).

1519

Leondardo da Vinci died at Cloux Castle in Amboise (France). He was a painter, scientist, inventor, anatomist, and military engineer. He painted the famous Monna Lisa (Louvre, Paris), and The Last Supper, which is a mural in the dining hall at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. While Da Vinci was one of the most extraordinary figures of the Renaissance, the range of his personality still remains largely unknown.

1997

John C. Eccles died in Locarno. He was one of the most preeminent neurophysiologists of the 20th century, and he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963. His numerous popular works elucidate his vision of the human mind in which he supersedes materialist monism by the conception of the mind transcending matter. He wrote The Human Mystery (1979) and The Wonder of Being Human (1985).

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