2012 Event Fox News reporter and Opus Dei member Greg Burke is selected by Pope Benedict XVI as secretariat of state 1995 Death Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51 1994 Death Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80 1975 Death Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer Albas, founder (Opus Dei), dies at 73 1947 Event Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei 1920 Event Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Pacem Dei 1919 Birthday Pieter Terpstra, Dutch journalist and writer, De dei is forroun/Havank-T 1911 Event Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins 1911 Event Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins 1902 Birthday Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer y Albas, Spanish priest, Opus Dei 1885 Event Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei 1847 Event Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo 1724 Death Innocent XIII, Michelangiolo dei Conti, Pope (1721-24), dies at 68 1721 Event Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII 1655 Birthday Innocent XIII, Michelangiolo dei Conti, Italy, 244th Pope, 1721-24 1261 Death Alexander IV, Rinaldo dei conti di Segni, Pope (1254-61), dies 1254 Death Innocent IV, Sinibaldo dei Fieschi, Pope (1243-54), dies 1243 Event Sinibaldo dei Fieschi elected as Pope Innocentius IV