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| white | St Leo the Great, pope and doctor of the Church | Memorial |
| Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | |
| Cycle II | [490] Phil 4:10-19; Ps 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a+9; Luke 16:9-15. |
| 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...
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| 1549 | Pope 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. |
| 1551 | Xavier ends his two year mission in Japan. |
| 1569 | Fr. Sforza Pallavicini, historian of the Council of Trent, was despite his attempts to escape the office, made a cardinal by Pope Alexander VII. |
| 1619 | Descartes has a dream/vision/insight into a unitary universal science. Jesuit educated. |
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