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April 2055

13 Tuesday
  violetTuesday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
 [258] Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15+17; John 13:21-33, 36-38.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:84th anniversary of the death of P. Luciano Ribeiro (61) d. 1971 at Tete, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:65th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Dinley (76) d. 1990 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Kilbride (HIB) (86) d. 1998 at Limerick, Ireland. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1506Peter Faber is born in Savoy, the first companion of Ignatius. He was born six days after Xavier was born.
1561Pius 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.
1853Loyola College, Baltimore, is chartered.
1979James W. Naughton, S.J. dies Secretary of the Society, 1950-67.
1981Fr. Godofredo Alingal, S.J. is shot and killed in his rectory in Kibawe, Philippines. He defended the rights of poor farmers. Age 59.
2004Bishop Martin Neylon, S.J. dies in New York. He had been director of Novices and then bishop in the Caroline-Marshall Islands.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2055

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6768
Years since the confirmation of the Society 515
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  499
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 34
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April