23 May

Born in 1834 – Carl Bloch, Danish painter.

Above: After the Bath. A Young Girl Knocking at the Fisherman's Window, 1884

Also, born in 1707, Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus.

God infinite, omniscient and omnipotent, woke me up and I was amazed! I have read some clues through His created things, in all of which, is His will; even in the smallest things, and the most minute! How much wisdom! What an inscrutable perfection!

Previously on May 23, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Pär Lagerkvist.