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October 2059

12 Sunday
  greenTwenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr A [142] Isa 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Phil 4:12-14, 19-20; Matt 22:1-14 or 22:1-10.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:87th anniversary of the death of F. Nicholas McHugh (80) d. 1972 at Stillorgan, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:55th anniversary of the death of P. Augustyn Smyda (68) d. 2004 at Bacice, Poland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:36th anniversary of the death of P. Oskar Wermter (SAP) (81) d. 2023 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:57th birthday of S. Joshua SIMWANZA (born this day in 2002).
Birthday:65th birthday of S. Zacarias Alfredo BONIFÁCIO (born this day in 1994).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Blessed John Beyzym, priest. Optional memorial.
Blessed John Beyzym, Priest (Optional Memorial)

Jan Beyzym (1850-1912) was born in Bayzymy Wielkie, in the present-day Ukraine. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at Stara Wies in 1872. After his ordination as priest in 1881, he taught in schools for seventeen years, and was given charge of the school infirmary. In 1898, at the age of forty-eight, in response to his desires, he was appointed to Madagascar to work among lepers. He was the first priest in the mission to live among the lepers. He personally dressed and bandaged their wounds. He begged for finances to provide them with food and clothing. He raised funds to build them with a well-equipped hospital. The lepers called him 'rayamendreny' – father and mother – which he truly was.

1600At Madrid died Father Louis Molina, a great theologian, whose doctrine on Grace and Free Will was fiercely attacked by Dominicans and others, and ably defended before Clement VIII by theologians of the Society.
1618The death in Bavaria of Servant of God, James Rem, who cared for boarding students in Ingolstadt and developed the Sodality there.
1935Work begins on Woodstock College golf course. The reason for this is given as the increase in medical difficulties" due to the Alack of provisions for an agreeable form of light exercise."
1976Fr. Joao Bosco Burnier, S.J. is shot and killed by soldiers in rural Brazil for protesting the torture of two Indian women. Aged 59.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2059

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 24
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6772
Years since the confirmation of the Society 519
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  503
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 38
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May