St Albert the Great, bishop and doctor of the Church Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church Readings from the Common of Saints: [675] Sir 15:1-6 (#725.3); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 13:47-52 (#730.3).
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Anniversary:
101st anniversary of the death of P. Basil Padreddi (51) d. 1920 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
6th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Geoghegan (84) d. 2015 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Birthday:
26th birthday of S. David MWANZA (born this day in 1995).
Birthday:
80th birthday of P. Patrick MAKAKA (born this day in 1941).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1628
St. Roch Gonzalez, S.J. an American Indian. is martyred, in Uruguay, with Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J. He is one of the architects of the Jesuit Reductions in Uruguay and Paraguay. His feast is November 16th.
1811
In Rome, the death of Joseph Pignatelli, a Spaniard of noble birth, a golden link between the Old and New Society. He died three years before the Restoration.
1856
Herbert Thurston is born. Prolific author on saints and spiritualists and spirituality..
1948
Louis Twomey inaugurates Christ’s Blueprint for the South, intended originally for social consciousness raising among Jesuits.
