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redSt Barnabas, apostle Memorial Mass of the memorial; preface of Ascension I - II or Easter I - V or of the saint. Cycle II [301] Acts 25:13b-21; Hours of the memorial [RM] Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Barnabas, apostle (cf. Acts 4:36-37) [from the Roman Martyrology]. Anniversary: 144th anniversary of the death of F. José Rieder (37) d. 1894 at Quelimane, Province of Mozambique. Anniversary: 127th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Dichamp (57) d. 1911 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England. Anniversary: 121st anniversary of the death of F. Augustine Zurek (70) d. 1917 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Anniversary: 101st anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Longa (80) d. 1937 at Kasisi, N. Rhodesia. Anniversary: 75th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Quin (88) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Anniversary: 39th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph McDonald (81) d. 1999 at Chikuni, Zambia. Anniversary: 31st anniversary of the death of F. Amadeu Inácio (93) d. 2007 at Cernache, Portugal. Anniversary: 20th anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Vincent Carls (SAF) (54) d. 2018 at Clarens, RSA. Birthday: 41st birthday of *S. Domingo, Michée Mawete (ACE) (born this day in 1997). 1612 At Quito died Mark Antonio, an Italian lay-brother known as "the Saint." To the age of 80, he macerated his body with fasts, disciplines, hair shirts. Once during Mass he was seen raised in the air, his face shining with light. 1742 Pope Benedict XIV forbade the Chinese and Malabar Rites; persecution broke out at once in China. 1844 Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., is born. 1927 John O’Malley, S.J. born. Historian.
