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March 2053

12 Wednesday
  violetWednesday in the Third Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [239] Deut 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Matt 5:17-19.
Hours of the day.
61st World Day of Persons with Disabilities (est. 1992)
Anniversary:62nd anniversary of the death of P. John Brogan (72) d. 1991 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:74th birthday of P. Odericky Roxy MWEEMBA (born this day in 1979).
Birthday:59th birthday of S. Meu JORGE (born this day in 1994).
SJ NOTE:Monthly Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on March 12, the 431st anniversary of the canonization of Ss Ignatius and Francis Xavier.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1604At St. Omer’s died Br. Ralph Emerson, who along with Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons were the first Jesuits to enter England.
1622At Rome, the canonization of Ignatius and Francis Xavier by Pope Gregory XV.
1622At Rome the solemn canonization of SS. Ignatius and Francis Xavier by Pope Gregory XV. (with St. Teresa of Avila and Philip Neri and Isidore, the husbandman or farmer)
1633The death of Cornelius a Lapide, S.J. Scripture scholar. He wrote commentaries on all books of the Bible except Job and the Psalms.
1783On this day Pope Pius VI expressed his approval of the Society in White Russia, saying in an audience... "Approbo Societatem Jesu in Alba Russia degentem. Approbo, approbo!"
1964Pope Paul VI, an alumnus, visits the Gregorian University.
1977Rutilio Grande, S.J., a pastor in El Salvador and champion of the campesinos is murdered on his way to celebrate Mass.
1978Robert I. Gannon, S.J. dies educator, after dinner speaker. He was President of Fordham University.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2053

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  2
Epact  x
Solar Cycle 18
Letter of the Martyrology k
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6766
Years since the confirmation of the Society 513
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  497
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 32
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 6 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    13 April