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March 2063

11 Sunday
  violetSecond Sunday of Lent
Mass of the Sunday; Creed, Preface of Second Sunday of Lent.
Penitential Rite for candidates to be admitted to Full Communion may be celebrated.
Yr B [26] Gen 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18; Ps 116:10+15, 16-17, 18-19; Rom 8:31b-34; Mark 9:2-10.
Hours of the Sunday.
Week 2 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:127th anniversary of the death of P. Jules Torrend (74) d. 1936 at Chikuni, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:125th anniversary of the death of F. Pedro Böehmer (69) d. 1938 at Macau, Hong Kong. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Blessed Martyrs of Valentia, Tomas Sitjar, fortia et al.
1540At Lisbon Fr. Simao Rodriguez is cured of fever on receiving the embrace of Francis Xavier.
1767At Madrid Fathers Thomas de Lorrain and Bernard Recio, leaving for the Provincial Congregation in Rome, received a sealed parcel said to come from the nuncio. They were requested to take it to someoneinRome. It contained a letter forged by de Choiseul and de Aranda, the prime ministers of France and Spain, and purporting to come from Father General Ricci alleging Charles III to be illegitimate. Both priests were arrested on their journey and brought back prisoners to Madrid. The forged document was shown to the king, whose previous affection for the Society turned into most bitter hatred. Charles III expels Jesuits from Spain
1767At Madrid, Frs. Thomas de Lorrain and Bernard Recio, leaving for the Provincial Congregation in Rome, received a sealed parcel said to come from the nuncio. They were requested to take it to someone in Rome. It contained a letter forged by de Choiseul and de Aranda, the prime ministers of France and Spain, and purporting to come from the General Ricci alleging Charles II to be illegitimate. Both priests were arrested on their journey and brought back prisoners to Madrid. The forged document, shown to the king, whose previous affection for the Society was converted into bitterest hatred.
1820At Madrid, an excited mob gathering in front of the Jesuit College, clamouring for the expulsion of the Jesuits.`
1848At Naples 114 members of the Society, after much suffering, were put into carts and driven ignominiously out of the city and kingdom.
1976Thomas Corbishley, S.J. dies British writer, lecturer.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2063

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 28
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6776
Years since the confirmation of the Society 523
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  507
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 42
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    22 April