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Wednesday of the fourteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I
[385] Gen 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a;Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19; Matt 10:1-7.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Veronica (Berenike), pious woman (cf. Lk. 23:27) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
131st anniversary of the death of F. Manuel de Freitas (35) d. 1892 at Inhambane, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
2nd anniversary of the death of P. David Rowan (SAP) (68) d. 2021 at Johannesburg, RSA.
Jubilee:
Porcelain Jubilee of P. Lastone R. LUPUPA who celebrates 20 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:
Porcelain Jubilee of P. Kapyunga Boyd Christopher NYIRENDA who celebrates 20 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1760
The banishment of Ours from Maranhao, South America.
1936
Arthur Vermeersch, S.J. dies Belgium. Author of Miles Christi Jesu, et al. Canon lawyer, moral theologian. He taught at Louvain and the Gregorian.
1994
Symposium on the Brothers opens in Loyola, Spain, in preparation for the 34th General Congregation.
2000
Fr. Remis Kerketta, S.J. age 47, is shot and killed by assassins. He was a school headmaster, in the state of Bihar, near Ranchi.
