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December 2077

1 Wednesday
  redSts 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.
[177] Isa 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Matt 15:29-37.
Hours of the saint.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   redBlessed Clementine Anuarite, Virgin and MartyrOptional 
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Nahum, prophet (cf. Na. 1:7) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:132nd anniversary of the death of P. John Spendel (65) d. 1945 at Port Elizabeth, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:110th anniversary of the death of F. Mathias Schoenbrod (88) d. 1967 at Munster, Germany. Read Obituary
Anniversary:89th anniversary of the death of P. Carl Brosig (97) d. 1988 at Berlin, Germany. Read Obituary
Birthday:86th birthday of S. Richard MUSONDA (born this day in 1991).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

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.

1551Letter of St. Ignatius encourages the inauguration of colleges.
1554The 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."
1581At Tyburn in London, St. Edmund Campion and Alexander Briant were martyred.
1764Louis XV declares that the Society of Jesus ceases to exit in France.
1916Blessed 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.
1973Brother Alfredo Perez Lobato, S.J. aged 36, is machine gunned to death in Chad.
1974The 32nd General Congregation opens. It stresses a faith that does justice, and the unity of hearts and minds.
1987Fr. 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.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2077

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  7
Epact  v
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology e
Roman Year of Indiction 10
Julian Period Year 6790
Years since the confirmation of the Society 537
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  521
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 56
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 11 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April