[159] Mal 3:19-20a; Ps 98:5-6, 7-8, 9; 2 Thess 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
81st anniversary of the death of P. George Edmonstone (70) d. 1986 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Birthday:
74th birthday of S. Laison MUCHINI (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Saint Stanislaus Kostka, Religious (Memorial)
Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1568) was born in Poland. In 1567 he was sent for studies to the Jesuit College in Vienna. In order to join the Jesuits, against the opposition of his family, Stanislaus walked the 750 kilometres to Germany, and with the blessings of Fr Peter Canisius, the Provincial Superior there, he was admitted to the Society of Jesus in Rome. In the novitiate, Stanislaus was blessed with mystical experiences. He died of illness on 15 August 1568.
1538
Pope Paul III caused the Governor of Rome to publish the verdict proclaiming the complete innocence of Ignatius and his companions of all heresy.
1607
Paul Kostka, brother of St. Stanislaus, dies in Poland. He had sought admission to the Society. Father General Acquaviva had given him leave to enter, but he died while making his preparations.
1806
The first novitiate in North America is opened. In Maryland Robert Molyneux, Superior, makes his solemn profession to Bishop John Carroll who was empowered by Fr. General Gruber to receive the profession.
1855
Bishop James Oliver Van de Velde, S.J. dies Natchez,Miss. A Missiouri Province Jesuit, he was President of St. Louis University and the second bishop of Chicago from 1848-53.
1950
Students move into the new site of Boston College High.
1988
Pope John Paul II prays at the tomb of Stanislaus Kostka, saying that "as a student at the Belgian College, nearly every day I came to pray to St. Stanislaus..."
