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May 2056

15 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Seventh Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II [297] Acts 19:1-8; Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; John 16:29-33.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:100th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Wiber (49) d. 1956 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:86th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Benson (46) d. 1970 at New York, NY, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of P. Stefan Hirjak (88) d. 2004 at Ivanka, Slovakia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:41st anniversary of the death of P. Pete Titland (76) d. 2015 at Tacoma, WA, USA. Read Obituary
Birthday:63rd 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 2056

Dominical Letter  b A
Golden Number  5
Epact  xiii
Solar Cycle 21
Letter of the Martyrology n
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6769
Years since the confirmation of the Society 516
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  500
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 35
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 2 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    9 April