[137] Num 11:25-29; Ps 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14; Jas 5:1-6; Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
138th anniversary of the death of P. Aloysius Baecher (83) d. 1952 at S. Salvador da BaÃa, Brazil.
Anniversary:
117th anniversary of the death of M. Narcisse Rutta (24) d. 1973 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of P. Gerry McIntyre (70) d. 2014 at Syracuse, NY, USA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1599
Publication in Rome of the Official Directory for giving the Spiritual Exercises.
1606
Blessed Julian Maunoir, B .
1879
The College de la Sainte Famille opens in Cairo.
1900
Loyola School, New York City, opens.
1911
Piet Schoonenberg, S.J. is born. Theologian
1938
Francis Cassilly, S.J. dies, Chicago. He wrote a high school catechism widely used.
1948
The death in Portugal of Servant of God Francis Rodrigues da Cruz, famed as a confessor of the poor.
2000
Pope John Paul II canonizes over 100 martyrs, including four Jesuits, Leo Mangin, Paul Denn, (martyred in China, 1880), Modesta Andlauer, Remigius Isore (killed in China 19 June, 2000)
