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|   white | Thursday in the Octave of Easter | 
|   | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. | 
|   | [264] Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2ab+5, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:35-48. | 
 | Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| Anniversary: | 100th anniversary of the death of P. Cuthbert Donnelly (75) d. 1977 at London, England.   | 
 On this day in our Jesuit history...
 
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| 1549 | Xavier embarks at Malacca for Japan. | 
| 1610 | Robert Parsons, S.J. dies "The most active and indefatigable of all the leaders of the English Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth." | 
| 1778 | Empress Catherine the Great requested the Holy See that the Jesuits in White Russia (the only ones in the world, all others having been suppressed) might have a novitiate. She received the answer that the local bishop should do as he thought best. | 
| 1778 | Empress Catherine the Great requested the Holy See that the Jesuits in White Russia (the only ones in the world, all others having been suppressed) might have a novitiate. She received the answer thatthelocal bishop should do as he thought best. | 
| 1884 | Fr. Peter Beckx, aged 88, resigned governance of the Society to Fr. Anton Anderledy. | 
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