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| red | Sts Edmund Campion, Robert Southwell, priests, and comp., martyrs [SJ]
Outside SJ churches, Mass of the occuring season.
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) | Memorial |
| Mass of the memorial; preface of Advent I or of the saint. |
| [178] Isa 26:1-6; Ps 118:1+8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Matt 7:21, 24-27. |
| Hours of the saint. |
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| | Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC] | | red | Blessed Clementine Anuarite, Virgin and Martyr | Optional | | Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors |
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| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Nahum, prophet (cf. Na. 1:7) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 77th anniversary of the death of P. John Spendel (65) d. 1945 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 55th anniversary of the death of F. Mathias Schoenbrod (88) d. 1967 at Munster, Germany. |
| Anniversary: | 34th anniversary of the death of P. Carl Brosig (97) d. 1988 at Berlin, Germany. |
| Birthday: | 31st birthday of S. Richard MUSONDA (born this day in 1991). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| Edmund Campion and Robert Southwell (age 33), priests, and their companions, martyrs, including Margaret Clitheroe, 10 Jesuit saints and 18 Jesuit blesseds. Memorial. |
| On this day, at Tyburn, in London, are martyred, Campion, aged 41 and Alexander Briant, aged 27. |
| | Saints Edmund Campion, Robert Southwell, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs (Memorial)
Today the Society of Jesus commemorates ten saints and eighteen blessed, all Jesuits of England or Wales, who were martyred on their native soil between 1573 and 1679, a time of fierce persecution of the Catholic Church. The Jesuits were especially hunted, but they stood firm, without abjuring their faith. Two of the best known in the group are Edmund Campion and Robert Southwell.
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| 1551 | Letter of St. Ignatius encourages the inauguration of colleges. |
| 1554 | The theological faculty of the University of Paris condemns the Society of Jesus in a ringing public declaration, calling it "a danger to the family, a disturber of the peace of the Church, destructive of monastic life, and destined to cause harm rather than education." |
| 1581 | At Tyburn in London, St. Edmund Campion and Alexander Briant were martyred. |
| 1764 | Louis XV declares that the Society of Jesus ceases to exit in France. |
| 1916 | Blessed Charles de Foucauld, inspired the founding of the Little Brothers of Jesus. He was assassinated by a jihadist of the Senussi sufi order at the door of his retreat in the Algerian Sahara. Jesuit Alumnus. |
| 1973 | Brother Alfredo Perez Lobato, S.J. aged 36, is machine gunned to death in Chad. |
| 1974 | The 32nd General Congregation opens. It stresses a faith that does justice, and the unity of hearts and minds. |
| 1987 | Fr. George Ruggieri, S.J. dies. A marine biologist, he served as director of the NY City Aquarium and Osborne Laboratories from 1976 until his death. |
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