Bl John Beyzym, priest [SJ] Texts in the Jesuit Supplement (Download here) From the Common of Missionaries, of from the Common of Pastors Readings from the Common of Saints: Common of Missionaries I. Isa 40:1-5; Ps 19(18):2-3, 4-5; Mark 16:15-20. II. 1 Thess 2:2b-8; Ps 96(95):1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10; Luke 10:1-9. Common of Pastors: Readings outside Easter Time I. Isa 6:1, 6-8; Ps 40(39):2+4ab, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10+12; Luke 4:16a-22. II. Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 67(66):2-3, 5, 7-8; John 17:20-26. III. 1 Pet 5:1-4; Ps 23(22):1-3, 4, 5, 6; John 10:11-16. Common of Pastors: Readings during Easter Time I. Acts 20:28-38; Ps 145(144):8-9, 10-11, 12-13ab; John 14:23-29.
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Anniversary:
105th anniversary of the death of F. Nicholas McHugh (80) d. 1972 at Stillorgan, Ireland.
Anniversary:
73rd anniversary of the death of P. Augustyn Smyda (68) d. 2004 at Bacice, Poland.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. Oskar Wermter (SAP) (81) d. 2023 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
75th birthday of S. Joshua SIMWANZA (born this day in 2002).
Birthday:
83rd 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.
1600
At 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.
1618
The death in Bavaria of Servant of God, James Rem, who cared for boarding students in Ingolstadt and developed the Sodality there.
1935
Work 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."
1976
Fr. Joao Bosco Burnier, S.J. is shot and killed by soldiers in rural Brazil for protesting the torture of two Indian women. Aged 59.
