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| violet | Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25. |
| Hours of the day |
| Anniversary: | 189th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Prestage (65) d. 1907 at Fort Victoria, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 183rd anniversary of the death of F. José António Martins (36) d. 1913 at Jette-St-Pierre, Brussels . |
| Anniversary: | 132nd anniversary of the death of P. George Loseby (50) d. 1964 at Johannesburg, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 128th 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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