Time Line 1939
Births
- Archbishop James Patterson Lyke
- Blessed Maria Laura Mainetti
- Blessed Paul Favre-Miville
- Blessed Reyes Us Hernández
- Father Leopoldo Pastori
- Gwen Cecilia Coniker
- Archbishop Dennis Eugene Hurley
- Archbishop Thomas Andrew Donnellan
- Blessed Alois Andritzki
- Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig
- Blessed Jan Franciszek Macha
- Father Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Archbishop Alban Goodier
- Archbishop Thomas P. Gilmartin
- Blessed Alicja Maria Jadwiga Kotowska
- Blessed Anselmo Polanco
- Blessed Emilia Fernández Rodríguez de Cortés
- Blessed Felipe Ripoll Morata
- Blessed Francesco Paleari
- Blessed Francisco Salamanca Bujalance
- Blessed Jeroni Fábregas Camí
- Blessed Leon Nowakowski
- Blessed Maria Gabriella Sagheddu
- Blessed Marian Skrzypczak
- Odette Vidal de Oliveira
- Pope Pius XI
- Saint Ursula Ledóchowska
- Venerable Giovanni Battista Zuaboni
- Venerable Janez Francišek Gnidovec
Founded
Elevations
- Hell Questions for a Street Preacher
- Our Lady’s Assumption, by Father Daniel Aloysius Lord, S.J.
- Sertum Laetitiae – On the Establishment of the Heirarchy in the United States, by Pope Pius XII, 1 November 1939
Other Events
- Germany invades Poland beginning World War II in Europe
- miraculous cure of Mrs Georgina Grondin from a malignant tumour through the intercession of Saint Marcelino Champagnat
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