It happened on OCTOBER 3

1226

St. Francis Assisi, the patron saint of Italy, died. St. Francis embodied a vision of nature that reflects a loving and providential image of God. Nature is no longer an impersonal, sacralized mother, but rather joins man as a sister in praising God the Father. In Catholic theology, Franciscan spirituality has inspired contemporary reflections on ecology.

1713
Giovanni Battista Beccaria was born. An Italian mathematician and physicist, he was a Piarist religious. He studied the nature of electricity and his work Natural and Artificial Electricity (1772) was translated into English at the request of Benjamin Franklin.

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