[309] 1 Sam 8:4-7, 10-22a;Ps 89:16-17, 18-19; Mark 2:1-12.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
147th anniversary of the death of F. James Gobert (82) d. 1925 at Tronchiennes, Belgium.
Anniversary:
114th anniversary of the death of P. Cuthbert Meyer (89) d. 1958 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Anniversary:
94th anniversary of the death of P. Desmond Donovan (50) d. 1978 at Makumbi, Republic of Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
51st anniversary of the death of P. Michael J. Kelly (ZAM) (91) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
82nd birthday of S. Moolisa S. TLALI (born this day in 1990).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1551
St. Francis Borgia wrote to the Emperor Charles V announcing his intention to enter the Society of Jesus and asking leave to resign his dukedom in favor of his eldest son, the Marquis de Lombay.
1552
At Rome, while the boys of the newly opened First Jesuit School, under the Capitol, were at Mass, two women entered the Church, shouting and accusing the Jesuits of robbing mothers of their children.
1623
At Louvain died Father Leonard Lessius, SJ. Age 69. 1624. At Valladolid died Ven. Father Louis de Ponte, a Spaniard, renowned for his holiness of life and ascetical works. 1776. In Rome the Jesuit prisoners in Castel S. Angelo were restored to liberty. Father Romberg, the German Assistant,aged 80, expressed a wish to remain in prison.
1888
John Berchmans, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Peter Claver are canonized.
1901
In the French Parliament, a Bill was introduced against Religious Congregations. The Society had to transfer its novitiates and Scholasticates abroad.
1906
The birth of Gustave Weigel, theologian and ecumenist.
1937
The Sacred Heart Program aired on radio for the first time, WEW, station of St. Louis University.
1942
The Volume I, Number I issue of Review for Religious makes its debut. It originated at St. Mary’s College, Kansas.
1955
The death of Daniel Lord, popular writer, U.S. director of the Sodality, founder of the Summer School of Catholic Action, and editor of The Queen's Work.
1978
Fr. Desmond Donovan, S.J. teacher, disappears in Zimbabwe.
1987
Jesuits are forced to close their school in southern Sudan because of civil war.
2008
Eduardo Hontiveras, S.J. dies age 84. Philippine Jesuit musician and liturgist.
