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11 August / 9 October – Saint John Henry Newman

Great Catholics John Henry Newman: Convert, Saint…and Also Musician Newman’s way of the fathers Writings On Archive.org Newman Reader “The Dream of Gerontius” Art & Architecture National Portrait Gallery ArtUK Wikimedia Commons

11 August – Blessed Plectrude

Modern Hagiography Bibliotheca Sanctorum Dictionary of Saintly Women Wikipedia Medieval Hagiography Acta Sanctorum Art & Architecture Portail Biblissima Wikimedia Commons Romanesque epitaph of Plektrudis (Cologne) & Gothic epitaph of Plektrudis (Cologne)

10 August 1792 – Massacre of the Swiss Guard at the Tuileries

Wikipedia Article on the Insurrection of 10 August 1792 The Lion of Lucerne: the controversial tourist attraction Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion) – a national-political monument with built-in controversy