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red | St Lawrence, deacon and martyr | Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. | | Yr B | [618] 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9; John 12:24-26. | | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
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Anniversary: | 148th anniversary of the death of F. Theodore Nigg (44) d. 1891 at Keilands, RSA. |
Anniversary: | 132nd anniversary of the death of S. Camilo Besset (28) d. 1907 at Boroma Mission, Mozambique. |
Anniversary: | 127th anniversary of the death of P. Peter McPhillips (38) d. 1912 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia. |
Anniversary: | 99th anniversary of the death of P. JoaĚo de Azevedo Mendes (57) d. 1940 at Barcelos, Portugal. |
Anniversary: | 97th anniversary of the death of F. Paul Gencewieze (69) d. 1942 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
Anniversary: | 61st anniversary of the death of P. Paul Bajan (66) d. 1978 at Pretoria, RSA. |
Birthday: | 50th birthday of S. Gibson PHIRI (born this day in 1989). |
Birthday: | 51st birthday of S. Evans TEMBO (born this day in 1988). |
Birthday: | 98th birthday of P. David DRYDEN (born this day in 1941). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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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. |
2018 | Carlos Riudavets Montes, SJ is murdered in Peru. |
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