[154] Wis 6:12-16; Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8; 1 Thess 4:13-18 or 4:13-14; Matt 25:1-13.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
77th anniversary of the death of P. Alfred Burbridge (76) d. 1946 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of P. JoseĚ da Costa ArauĚjo (79) d. 2008 at Teresina, PiauĂ, Brazil.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. John Dooley (HIB) (92) d. 2022 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
34th birthday of P. Emmanuel BANDA (born this day in 1989).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1606
In the tower of London, Nicholas Owen ("Little John,") was tortured to death on the rack. After death, a hair-shirt was found on his body.
1615
At Rome Father Fabius de Fabii, one of the ancient family of the Fabii, had a painful death, having been gored by a savage bull on the way to St. Paul's. He would not seek a miracle from St. Francis Xavier, whose arm had recently been brought to Rome, but preferred to resign himself to God's holy will. He had been Master of Novices, Provincial, and Assistant.
1760
Empress Maria Teresa of Austria decreed that the chairs of theology in all the universities within her domain should be held by Dominicans or Augustinians to avoid the "corrupt doctrine taught by the Jesuits."
1914
E. Schillebeeckx is born. Theologian. His brother, a Jesuit, was a Provincial in India.
1919
Instruction of Father General Ledochowski on typewriters, Usus machinae dactylographicae. They would be allowed for offices, not for persons, and should not be carried from one house to another.
1982
Vincent OâKeefe, General Assistant to Fr. Arrupe, received the Xavier Award at the 40th annual dinner.
1989
Raymond Adams, S.J. dies Anthropologist, superior, teacher. He was murdered in Cape Coast, Ghana by one he was trying to help.
