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| red | The Exaltation of the Holy Cross | Mass of the solemnity; gloria, creed, preface of the solemnity. | | Cycle I | Triumph of the Cross [638] Num 21: 4b-9; Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38; Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3: 13-17.
Only 2 readings on weekdays. | | | Hours of the Solemnity; Te Deum. |
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| Anniversary: | 83rd anniversary of the death of P. Clodoveo Piazza (EUM) (80) d. 2018 at Gallarate, Italy.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1537 | Those ordained with St. Ignatius celebrate their first Masses: Xavier, Salmeron, Rodriguez, Bobadilla, and Codure. Ignatius waits a while longer. |
| 1539 | At his summer residence in Tivoli, outside of Rome, Paul III gave his initial, oral approval of the Society of Jesus when St. Ignatius sent him the "Five Chapters" which described the proposed new religious order. |
| 1562 | Paschase Broet, S.J. dies in Paris, ministering to plague victims. He was one of the first companions and was the first Provincial of France. |
| 1566 | The first Jesuit enters the continental USA, Pedro Martinez. He is killed three weeks later, in Florida. |
| 1577 | Andrew Oviedo, S.J. dies. He is the first Jesuit to be made a bishop, and patriarch of Ethiopia. |
| 1596 | The death of Cardinal Francis Toledo, the first of the Society to be raised to the purple. He died at age 63, and had been a cardinal for 3 years. |
| 1877 | Joseph de Guibert, S.J. is born. Expert on Ignatian spirituality. |
| 1915 | The Holy Father congratulates the Messenger of the Sacred Heart on its 50th anniversary, with its circulation of 315,000. |
| 1962 | Michael Gruenthaler dies. He was the first American to get a doctorate at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, was co-founder of the Catholic Biblical Association, and editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly for 10 years. |
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