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May 2055

15 Saturday
  whiteSaturday in the Fourth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [284] Acts 13:44-52; Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4; John 14:7-14.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:99th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Wiber (49) d. 1956 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:85th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Benson (46) d. 1970 at New York, NY, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:51st anniversary of the death of P. Stefan Hirjak (88) d. 2004 at Ivanka, Slovakia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:40th anniversary of the death of P. Pete Titland (76) d. 2015 at Tacoma, WA, USA. Read Obituary
Birthday:62nd birthday of S. Rodrick CHIWAYA (born this day in 1993).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1561Gonzalo da Silveira, dies a martyr in Africa.
1605The election of Pope Paul V who put an end to the prolonged controversies De Auxiliis and would allow no censure to be attached to Father Molina's book.
1613Fr. Jacques Quentin and Br. Gilbert du Thet arrive to settle on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. It is short lived as the English capture and take over the place.
1815The readmission of the Society into Spain. But the fathers were again exiled on July 31, 1820.
1909The death in Quito, Ecuador, of Italian Jesuit Luis Sodiro, a key scientific figure in Latin America, who developed a botanic collection that formed the base for the National Botanical Garden inQuito.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2055

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 20
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6768
Years since the confirmation of the Society 515
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  499
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 34
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April