19 June

In 325, The first council of Nicaea adopted the Nicene Creed, which begins, “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible.”

Above: Council of Nicaea depicted in a Byzantine fresco in the basilica of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey.

Also, born in 1623, French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal, who said:

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.