function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
145th anniversary of the death of F. Theodore Nigg (44) d. 1891 at Keilands, RSA.
Anniversary:
129th anniversary of the death of S. Camilo Besset (28) d. 1907 at Boroma Mission, Mozambique.
Anniversary:
124th anniversary of the death of P. Peter McPhillips (38) d. 1912 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. JoaĚo de Azevedo Mendes (57) d. 1940 at Barcelos, Portugal.
Anniversary:
94th anniversary of the death of F. Paul Gencewieze (69) d. 1942 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
58th anniversary of the death of P. Paul Bajan (66) d. 1978 at Pretoria, RSA.
Birthday:
47th birthday of S. Gibson PHIRI (born this day in 1989).
Birthday:
48th birthday of S. Evans TEMBO (born this day in 1988).
Birthday:
95th birthday of P. David DRYDEN (born this day in 1941).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1560
A letter of Polanco in Lainez's name, to all superiors on our ministries. It emphasizes the shift and emphasis on education and the colleges, as the special ministry of the Society.
1567
Stanislaus Kostka leaves Vienna at dawn, to join the Society of Jesus in Germany and eventually enters in Rome.
1654
Eusebio Francis Kino is born in Italy. He was a missionary to California. 1868. Expulsion of the Society from Mexico and seizure of its property.
1868
The Society was expelled from Mexico and all its property conďŹscated.
1944
Yves de Montcheuil, S.J. dies. A theologian and chaplain, he was arrested while ministering to men of the resistance, and shot by Germans at Grenoble shortly before liberation.
1981
Fr. Arrupe names General Assistant Vincent O'Keefe to be temporary Vicar General to handle the government of the Society.