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11 Thursday
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St Stanislaus, bishop and martyr
Memorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of Easter I - V, or of the saint.
Cycle II
[270] Acts 5:27-33;Ps 34:2+9, 17-18, 19-20; John 3:31-36.
Hours of the memorial
Anniversary:
117th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Prestage (65) d. 1907 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
111th anniversary of the death of F. José António Martins (36) d. 1913 at Jette-St-Pierre, Brussels .
Anniversary:
60th anniversary of the death of P. George Loseby (50) d. 1964 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. Raul Sarreira (79) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1542
St. Ignatius sent Pedro Ribadenaira, aged fifteen, from Rome to Paris for his studies. Pedro had been admitted into the Society in l540.
1573
At the Third General Congregation, Pope Gregory XIII suggests that we elect a non-Spanish to be General. Eventually the Belgian Mercurian will be elected.
1607
In China died Brother Benito Goes.
1632
At Lima, Peru, Fr. Ruiz de Montoya died. A Portuguese, he was called the Apostle of Paraguay, for he converted thousands.
1673
At Lima died Ven. Father Francis de Castillo, a Portuguese, justly regarded as the Apostle of Peru.
1985
Translation of the body of Fr. Felice Capello, "the confessor of Rome" to the Church of St. Ignatius near the confessional he occupied almost daily for thirty years. He died in 1962.
