[441] 1 Tim 1:1-2, 12-14;Ps 16:1b-2a+5, 7-8, 11; Luke 6:39-42.
Hours of the day.
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Bl Francis Garate, religious [SJ] Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) From the Common of Religious Readings from the Common of Saints:
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Anniversary:
162nd anniversary of the death of M. Roland Thomas (29) d. 1893 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
78th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Costello (65) d. 1977 at New York, NY, USA.
Anniversary:
43rd anniversary of the death of P. Hermann Husemann (85) d. 2012 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
96th birthday of P. Simon MAKURU (born this day in 1959).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Blessed Br. Francis Garate, S.J. Memorial.
Blessed Francis Gárate, Religious (Optional Memorial)
Francis Gárate (1857-1929) was born in a farmhouse just a hundred yards from the Loyola Castle in Spain. After some elementary education, at the age of fourteen he began work as a domestic servant at the Jesuit college in Orduña, Spain. In 1874, he joined the Society as a coadjutor Brother. From 1877 to 1888 he served as infirmarian and sacristan at the Jesuit College in La Guardia, near the Portuguese border. He went about his duty most meticulously, caring for the sick, often spending whole nights by their bedside. The strain was too much for him and he was transferred to the University college at Deusto, in Bilbao, Spain, as doorkeeper, remaining there for the next forty-one years. He was known for his holiness, piety, kindness and courtesy.
1523
After several months of sailing and a week of waiting in the harbour at Joppa to disembark, Ignatius finally entered the city of Jerusalem as a pilgrim. He could not stay in Holy Land. He would depart from Jaffa on October 3rd.
1622
At Nagasaki, the martyrdom of Charles Spinola and companions. 1773. Clement XIV’s letter of suppression is published in Vienna.
1839
Charles Sanders Peirce is born at 3 Phillips Place, Cambridge, MA. Later this house is the center of Weston Jesuit School of Theolog
1919
The Mission of Patna, India is assigned to the Missouri Province.
1931
A devastating hurricane destroys St. John’s College in Belize and takes the lives of 11 Jesuits. One account said: "The hurricane demolished everything but hope." 6 priests, 4 scholastics, 1 brother, as well as some students at St. John's College.
1946
The death of Robert Jacquinot, called "the savior of Shanghai", saved 500,000 Chinese lives in the refugee zone of Shanghai from 1937-40.
1957
Pope Pius XII addresses the 30th General Congregation on the use of tobacco, etc. as superfluities.
2001
The death of Xavier Diaz del Rio, publisher of Ignis magazine and editor of the Gujarat Press for many years.
2005
Michael Ivens, S.J. dies. Expert on the Spiritual Exercises, British Province. Understanding the Spiritual Exercises.
