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| white | Saturday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [266] Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1+14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21; Mark 16:9-15. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Jeremiah, prophet (cf. Jer. 1:9) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 112th anniversary of the death of P. Bernard Rizzonelli (71) d. 1926 at Italy.  |
| Anniversary: | 15th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Serra Ferreira (POR) (84) d. 2023 at Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Birthday: | 52nd birthday of P. Martin NYADEWO (born this day in 1986). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1570 | Six Jesuits, later twenty, become the official penitentieri in St. Peter's Basilica. |
| 1572 | At Rome, Pope St. Pius V breathed his last. His decree imposing Choir on the Society was canceled by his successor, Gregory XIII. |
| 1592 | Adam Schall, S.J. is born. Cologne. |
| 1873 | In Rome the Italian Parliament passed a law declaring religious orders non-existent in Italy, and ownership of all their properties passed to the state. |
| 1881 | Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. is born. |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI entrusts the task of combating atheism to the Society of Jesus. |
| 1987 | Edith Stein and Rupert Mayer, S.J. are beatified by John Paul II. |
| 1987 | Raymond Schoder, S.J. dies in Chicago. He was a classical scholar and noted photographer. |
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