Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle I
[299] Acts 20:28-38;Ps 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
141st anniversary of the death of P. Richard Wiber (49) d. 1956 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
127th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Benson (46) d. 1970 at New York, NY, USA.
Anniversary:
93rd anniversary of the death of P. Stefan Hirjak (88) d. 2004 at Ivanka, Slovakia.
Anniversary:
82nd anniversary of the death of P. Pete Titland (76) d. 2015 at Tacoma, WA, USA.
Birthday:
104th birthday of S. Rodrick CHIWAYA (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1561
Gonzalo da Silveira, dies a martyr in Africa.
1605
The 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.
1613
Fr. 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.
1815
The readmission of the Society into Spain. But the fathers were again exiled on July 31, 1820.
1909
The 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.
