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August 2079

14 Monday
  redSt Maximillian Mary Kolbe, priest and martyr
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [413] Deut 10:12-22; Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; Matt 17:22-27.
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.
Anniversary:105th anniversary of the death of P. Terence Filby (62) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:89th anniversary of the death of P. Trevor Paine (83) d. 1990 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:80th anniversary of the death of P. Shaun Curran (75) d. 1999 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:66th anniversary of the death of F. Davy Byrne (HIB) (78) d. 2013 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:118th birthday of P. Antony X. SAHAYA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:94th birthday of S. Mapeza P. MASELECHI (born this day in 1985).
Birthday:104th birthday of P. Russell POLLITT (born this day in 1975).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1599Letter from Father Claude Acquaviva on the use of the Spiritual Exercises.
1610Fr. General forbids Jesuits to discuss the book of Father Mariana, S.J. according to which kings or tyrants might be assassinated.
1618The father of John Berchmans is ordained a priest. His son John was still in the novitiate.
1794Pius VI signed the Bull, Auctorem Fidei in defense of devotion to the Sacred Heart. The Jansenist Synod of Pistoia is there condemned.
1812Arrival at Polosk, in White Russia, of Napoleon I and his army; plunder of the Society’s property, violation of the Generals’ tombs.
1936The 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.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2079

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6792
Years since the confirmation of the Society 539
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  523
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 58
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 23 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    23 April