She was one of 32 women ordained that day and recalls her long fight to become a priest.
Piccard was the first of the women to be ordained that day, because at 79 she was the oldest, and because she was fulfilling an ambition she had had since she was 11 years old.
Ignatius, patriarch of Constantinople intermittently from 847 to 877, was exiled by the government in 858 and replaced by Photius, a scholarly layman who was head of the imperial chancery he was elected patriarch and ordained within six days.
On Thursday, he will be ordained at Dai Bosatsu as a monk, and will start his 1,000 days of training.
Grant had chosen Ezra Taft Benson to fill the other vacancy in the Quorum, and he and Kimball were ordained on the same day.
To correct for this retrogression and bring the calendar year back to the solar year, Pope Gregory XIII omitted these extra days, ordaining in 1582 that, for that year, October 4 was to be followed by October 15.
In 1994 he was one of two bishops who ordained 90 women over two days at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
He was ordained a priest a few days short of turning 33, and from that point on, his ascent within the church was rapid: by 1973, he had been named the Jesuit provincial for Argentina, the church official in charge of supervising the order's activities in the country.
The psalmist reminds us that God has a plan and a purpose for every day of our lives: "In thy book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them" (Psalm 139 16).
"I did it when we were making 'Cry-Baby,' because at the time Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were going to be married, and Johnny's lawyers asked me to be ordained," Waters explained the other day over breakfast — half a poppy-seed bagel, with lox spread — at his apartment in Greenwich Village.
I believe I will only die the day Allah has ordained for me to die.
