[144] 2 Kgs 5:14-17; Ps 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4; 2 Tim 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. Gerard Pfaehler (90) d. 1960 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Teresa of Avila, virgin and doctor, Memorial.
1546
Isabel Roser was released by St. Ignatius from her Jesuit vows after eight months.
1546
The province of Portugal was established as the ï¬rst province in the Society, with Simão Rodrigues as the ï¬rst provincial.
1582
At Avila the death of St. Teresa, the first day of the new Gregorian calendar. She always wished to have Jesuit confessors and spoke of the Fathers as Benedicti homines Societatis Jesu.
1917
Pope Benedict XV founds the Pontifical Oriental Institute which is later entrusted to the Society of Jesus. Motu Proprio, Orientis Catholicae.
