Jonah had plenty of time.
Time boxed in days
Labelled for Dr Black
And Reverend Green.
Time to breath
And think about the time
When a Doctor and a Priest
Chased him over the fields
Straight down the gullet
Of this giant fish.
Don't think too much, Jonah.

Isaac Jogues, French missionary and martyr, died today in 1646.

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Christine Murrell, English medical doctor and activist for women’s right, was born today in 1874 and died in this day in 1933.