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| red | St Maximillian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr | Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | | | Cycle I | [416] Josh 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17; Ps 114:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; Matt 18:21-19:1. | | Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors
Readings from the Common of Saints: [620A] Wis 3:1-9, or 1 John 3:14-18; Ps 116:10-11, 12-13, 16ac-17; John 15:12-16. | |
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| Anniversary: | 51st anniversary of the death of P. Terence Filby (62) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 35th anniversary of the death of P. Trevor Paine (83) d. 1990 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Anniversary: | 26th anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Curran (75) d. 1999 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Anniversary: | 12th anniversary of the death of F. Davy Byrne (HIB) (78) d. 2013 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 64th birthday of P. Antony X. SAHAYA (born this day in 1961). |
| Birthday: | 40th birthday of S. Mapeza P. MASELECHI (born this day in 1985). |
| Birthday: | 50th birthday of P. Russell POLLITT (born this day in 1975). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1599 | Letter from Father Claude Acquaviva on the use of the Spiritual Exercises. |
| 1610 | Fr. General forbids Jesuits to discuss the book of Father Mariana, S.J. according to which kings or tyrants might be assassinated. |
| 1618 | The father of John Berchmans is ordained a priest. His son John was still in the novitiate. |
| 1794 | Pius VI signed the Bull, Auctorem Fidei in defense of devotion to the Sacred Heart. The Jansenist Synod of Pistoia is there condemned. |
| 1812 | Arrival at Polosk, in White Russia, of Napoleon I and his army; plunder of the Society’s property, violation of the Generals’ tombs. |
| 1936 | The deaths of Servants of God Joachim Valentí, Louis Boguñá, and Joseph Vergés, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, killed by machine gun fire the day after their arrests. |
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