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May 2059

13 Tuesday
  whiteTuesday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I [298] Acts 20:17-27; Ps 68:10-11, 20-21; John 17:1-11a.
Hours of the day.
  white Our Lady of FatimaOptional
 (Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Readings from the Common of Saints: [563A] Isa 61:9-11 (#707.9); Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17 (#709.3); Luke 11:27-28.)
Anniversary:121st anniversary of the death of P. Domingos da Piedade Luís Fernandes (81) d. 1938 at Kotagiri, India. Read Obituary
Anniversary:115th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Gardner (71) d. 1944 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:69th anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Lopes (86) d. 1990 at Porto, Portugal. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

The Traditional feast of St. Robert Bellarmine. RM
1572The election of Gregory XIII to succeed St. Pius V. To him the Society owes the foundation of the Roman and German Colleges.
1638In London died Father Richard Blount, for mor than twenty years Superior, Vice-Provincial, and Provincial of the English Mission and Province.
1704Louis Bourdaloue, S.J. dies, age 72 in Paris. He is the most famous of all Jesuit preachers. It was said that places were reserved 48 hours before he spoke.
1758At Madrid, Pombal’s slanderous pamphlets against the Society were burnt in the public square.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2059

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 24
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6772
Years since the confirmation of the Society 519
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  503
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 38
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May