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Waxing Gibbous
13 Wednesday
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Wednesday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
[259] Is 50:4-9a;Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:
51st anniversary of the death of P. Luciano Ribeiro (61) d. 1971 at Tete, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
32nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Dinley (76) d. 1990 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
24th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Kilbride (HIB) (86) d. 1998 at Limerick, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1506
Peter Faber is born in Savoy, the first companion of Ignatius. He was born six days after Xavier was born.
1561
Pius IV, by a special Brief, allowed the Society to erect houses within a distance of l40 yards (cannae) from the houses of other Religious Orders.
1853
Loyola College, Baltimore, is chartered.
1979
James W. Naughton, S.J. dies Secretary of the Society, 1950-67.
1981
Fr. Godofredo Alingal, S.J. is shot and killed in his rectory in Kibawe, Philippines. He defended the rights of poor farmers. Age 59.
2004
Bishop Martin Neylon, S.J. dies in New York. He had been director of Novices and then bishop in the Caroline-Marshall Islands.
