[256] Ezek 37:21-28;Jer 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13; John 11:45-56.
Hours of the day.
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St Martin I, pope and martyr Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors: For a Pope Readings from the Common of Saints: [551] 2 Tim 2:8-13; 3:10-12 (#716.5); Ps 126:1bc-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); John 15:18-21 (#718.6).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of P. Luciano Ribeiro (61) d. 1971 at Tete, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
40th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Dinley (76) d. 1990 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
32nd 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.
