Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For new martyrs (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those who risk their lives for the Gospel in various parts of the world might imbue the Church with their courage and missionary drive."
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Friday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[248] Wis 2:1a, 12-22;Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21+23; John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
109th anniversary of the death of F. Paulo Schupp (45) d. 1915 at Bombay, India.
Anniversary:
89th anniversary of the death of F. Thomas Arnold (74) d. 1935 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. Alfredo João Peixoto (37) d. 1968 at Vila Coutinho, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. Andrew Pirog (95) d. 2003 at Lusaka, Zambia.
66th birthday of F. Jonathan CHAZURA (born this day in 1958).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1522
At Montserrat on the Vigil of the Annunciation, Ignatius spent the night in prayerful vigil. He had arrived dressed in expensive clothes in the fashion and style of soldiers, but gave those garments to a poor man and donned a simple pilgrim's robe.
1561
At Monomotapa, the martyrdom of Fr. Goncalo da Silveira strangled by Mahometans in Zimbabwe. The first martyr of sub-Saharan Africa, he was opposed by Arab merchants.
1575
Luis Gonzalez Camara dies Lisbon. From 1553-55 he took dictation of the Autobiography of St. Ignatius.
1632
At Seville, the death of Father Diego Ruiz, the great theologian, who studied on his knees.
1711
Eusebio Kino, S.J dies in California, missionary, pioneer, cartographer, mathematician. He worked in Mexico and Arizona, and died while celebrating Mass. He represents the state of Arizona in the Statuary Hall at the Capitol Building in Washington.
1797
President George Washington holds a public reception at Georgetown University.
1893
Bernard Leeming S.J is born. ecumenist, expert on Anglican orders. He attended Xavier H.S. in New York.
1933
The death of Frederick Odenbach, S.J. called the father of American seismology. He set up the first seismograph in the USA and was the inventor of the electric seismograph.
1995
Joseph Fitzpatrick dies. A sociologist, an expert on Hispanics in the USA, he was a professor at Fordham University.
1995
Richard Smith dies. age 77. He was a professor of theology and he edited the Review for Religious from 1959-75.
