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Mexico outlaws Catholicism
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Servant of God Dorothy Day converts to Catholicism.
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Bl. Miguel Pro is killed by the Mexican government.
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Day founds the Catholic Worker newspaper
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St. Maximilian Kolbe is killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
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Pope St. John XXlll calls the Church council that will become known as Vatican ll.
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Pope St. John Paul ll survives an assassination attempt ordered by KGB (the Soviet intelligence agency).