Google.com showed a special ‘Doodle’ today as a tribute to the father of geology, blessed Niels Stensen.

The Google logo appears in the form of a cross section of the earth’s crust to commemorate the Danish geologist and anatomist’s 374th birthday.

Stensen became a Catholic in 1667 and was made a bishop in 1677. He died at the age of 48 on November 25, 1686. Hear about his amazing life on the SaintCast:

Click here!

On March 19, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Saint Joseph. In a blog post on Patheos.com Pat Gohn reminds us why Joseph is such an important saint.

The Catholic Church has long-venerated Joseph for this single, powerful idea: it was into Joseph’s hands that God entrusted his most precious treasures—his Son Jesus, and Mary, his holy mother. As Mary and Jesus are entrusted to Joseph, so too, does the Church, entrust itself to Joseph’s active patronage and paternal protection, as Patron of the Universal Church.

You can read the blog post by clicking here: Joseph’s Way