[157] Prov 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; 1 Thess 5:1-6; Matt 25:14-30 or 25:14-15, 19-21.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
104th anniversary of the death of P. Ambrose Casset (65) d. 1928 at Tisbury, Wilts, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Saint Joseph Pignatelli, Priest (Memorial)
Joseph Pignatelli (1737-1811) was the link between the Society of Jesus suppressed in 1773, and restored in 1814. He led some 600 former Jesuits from Spain living in exile in Italy, for almost four decades during the Suppression. Through his various interventions, Jesuits were permitted to rejoin the surviving Society of Jesus in White Russia, and the Society was restored in some parts of Italy in 1793, and in 1803, he was appointed Provincial Superior. In 1807, Pignatelli settled in Rome and continued the administration of the Society of Jesus. He died three years before the Society of Jesus was restored.
1598
At Ferrara died Fr. Benedict Palmio. Great esteemed as a preacher, he was the first Jesuit to be appointed by the Pope as preacher at the Vatican.
1832
Charles Carroll of Carrolltown dies. He was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence and the last surviving signer. Jesuit alumnus.
1907
Pedro Arrupe Born
1910
John LaFarge dies Artist and writer. He is the Father of Jesuit John LaFarge.
1956
Moorhouse I.X. Millar, S.J. dies Educator, writer on Church-State. He taught Political Philosophy at Fordham University.
1980
The Jesuit Refugee Service is established by Fr. General Pedro Arrupe.
1983
Fr. General decrees that all Independent Vice-Provinces become Provinces.
2013
Letter of Fr. Nicolas to commemorate the second century anniversary. of the Restoration of the Society
