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November 2026

10 Tuesday
  whiteSt Leo the Great, pope and doctor of the ChurchMemorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II [492] Titus 2:1-8, 11-14; Ps 37:3-4, 18+23, 27+29; Luke 17:7-10.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors: For a Pope, or Common of Doctors of the Church
Readings from the Common of Saints: [672] Sir 39:6-10 (#725.4); Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 30-31 (#727.2); Matt 16:13-19 (#724.2).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1549Pope Paul III dies To him the Society owes its first constitution as a religious order, the Formula of the Institute, approved on 27 September, 1540.
1551Xavier ends his two year mission in Japan.
1569Fr. Sforza Pallavicini, historian of the Council of Trent, was despite his attempts to escape the office, made a cardinal by Pope Alexander VII.
1619Descartes has a dream/vision/insight into a unitary universal science. Jesuit educated.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April