[252] Num 21:4-9;Ps 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21; John 8:21-30.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
61st anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaus Wawrzkiewicz (82) d. 1974 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Gerald J Bussy (78) d. 1986 at Seattle, USA.
Anniversary:
32nd anniversary of the death of F. Francis Roe (HIB) (85) d. 2003 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
20th anniversary of the death of F. Martin Murphy (81) d. 2015 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
92nd birthday of P. David GORNALL (born this day in 1943).
22nd anniversary of the election of Pope Francis (2013).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1522
At 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.
1535
St.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.
1568
Father John Segura with five companions set sail from Spain for Florida, that fertile field of martyrs. (Nine Jesuits were killed between 1566 and 1571).
1599
The birth of John Berchmans at Diest in Flanders.
1820
In 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.
1939
Alban Goodier, S.J. dies Archbishop and spiritual writer.
1940
Auguste 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.
2013
Pope 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.
