Daybreak for August 13, 2026

Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus; Pontian was Bishop of Rome from 230 - 236 A.D.; St. Hippolytus, a prominent theologian, was a theological opponent and rival of several of Pontian's predecessors and of Pontian himself; when Maximinus I became emperor in 235, . he banished both men to the island of Sardinia; St. Hippolytus reconciled…