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March 2026

13 Friday
  violetFriday in the Third Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [241] Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14+17; Mark 12:28-34.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaus Wawrzkiewicz (82) d. 1974 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:40th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald J Bussy (78) d. 1986 at Seattle, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:23rd anniversary of the death of F. Francis Roe (HIB) (85) d. 2003 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:11th anniversary of the death of F. Martin Murphy (81) d. 2015 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:83rd birthday of P. David GORNALL (born this day in 1943).
13th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis (2013).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1522At Montserrat, St. Ignatius hung up his sword near Our Lady's altar, and after a night vigil swore to serve only Christ and His Mother.
1535St.Ignatius Loyola receives his diploma for the M.A. at the University of Paris. His studies and exams ended 1534. This gives him the right to be called Master Ignatius, which became his regular title. He had received the licentiate one year earlier.
1568Father John Segura with five companions set sail from Spain for Florida, that fertile field of martyrs. (Nine Jesuits were killed between 1566 and 1571).
1599The birth of John Berchmans at Diest in Flanders.
1820In Russia, an imperial ukase of Czar Alexander I banished all Jesuits from the Empire where the Society had survived from 1773 until the restoration in 1814.
1939Alban Goodier, S.J. dies Archbishop and spiritual writer.
1940Auguste Coemans, S.J. dies Rome, age 75.. He is the author of Commentary on the Rules of the Society of Jesus and he prepared the new edition of the Epitome.
2013Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was elected to be the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church being the first Jesuit in history to become Pope.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April