Fr. Francis Baker

1820—Father Francis Asbury Baker, one of the founders of the Society of St. Paul the Apostle, is born in Baltimore Maryland. Ordained as a Protestant clergyman in 1846, Fr. Baker left the Episcopal Church in 1853 and converted to Catholicism. He was ordained a Redemptorist priest on September 21, 1856 in the Cathedral of Baltimore. Along with several of his Redemptorist brothers, Fr. Baker left the order and co-founded the Paulist Institute.

1191—Giacinto Bobone is elected Pope Celestine III at the age of 85, succeeding Clement III. When he was elected to the Chair of St. Peter, Celestine III was only a deacon and therefore had to be ordained to the priesthood, which took place on April 13, 1191. On April 14th, Celestine was ordained to the episcopacy and consecrated Pope.