- ... that in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, (pictured) a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
- ... that French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
- ... that the bronze of Mary atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the Port of Los Angeles harbor?