I believe some of you are really going to need an old lady in church, saying the rosaries on a Tuesday afternoon in the back row of your church to explain this one to you:
December 8, 1854
Pius IX promulgates the doctrine of Immaculate Conception (Ineffabilis Deus) – the Virgin Mary is free from original sin (and not the other thing some of you think.)
Later, she achieves permanent fame when despite of her marriage, she finds herself in the family way by her acquaintance with a Supreme Being.
December 8, 1952 –
In some weird cosmic irony, the episode Lucy Is Enceinte first aired on CBS-TV (“enceinte” being French for “expecting” or “pregnant“) on this date
CBS would not allow I Love Lucy to use the word “pregnant“, so “expecting” was used instead. (CBS won’t let other people stream this episode, for free, any more.)
If you are not so inclined – Today is Bodhi Day — the Buddhist holiday commemorating the day when the Buddha first experienced enlightenment (in sanskrit, known as bodhi) while sitting under a tree and meditating.
The former prince, Siddhartha Gautauma, had recently given up years of self-enforced fasting, service, and poverty and resolved to sit under a tree and simply meditate until he could finally find the root of suffering and how to liberate oneself from it. It took him more than 40 days.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 