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| white | Monday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [261] Acts 2:14, 22-32; Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Matt 28:8-15. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| Anniversary: | 154th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Prestage (65) d. 1907 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 148th anniversary of the death of F. José António Martins (36) d. 1913 at Jette-St-Pierre, Brussels . |
| Anniversary: | 97th anniversary of the death of P. George Loseby (50) d. 1964 at Johannesburg, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 93rd anniversary of the death of P. Raul Sarreira (79) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
| 2016 | Death of Fr. John Guenter Gerhartz. |
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