[367] 2 Cor 9:6-11;Ps 112:1b-2, 3-4, 9; Matt 6:1-6, 16-18.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Amos, prophet (cf. Am. 7:15) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
163rd anniversary of the death of P. António Nunes (69) d. 1938 at Baía, Brazil.
Anniversary:
142nd anniversary of the death of P. Harold Burrows (82) d. 1959 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Birthday:
138th birthday of P. Carlos Mário SIVANO (born this day in 1963).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1564
Francis Suarez entered the Novitiate, after experiencing many difficulties, having been twice rejected by the examiner on the score of feeble health and apparently insufficient talent.
1572
The Mexican Province is established.
1871
A female law student, P.W. Couzins, graduates from St. Louis University Law School, the first law school in the country to admit women.
1876
Cardinal Franzelin was raised to the purple. 1888. Martin Darcy, S.J. is born.
1927
Leonce de Grandmaison,S.J. dies Apologist, defender against Modernism. Editor of Etudes, 1908-27. He wrote a well-known life of Christ.
1956
The first television presentation of the Sacred Heart program appears on KTVI in St. Louis.
1994
James Dempske dies. President of Canisius College, he had been novice director and played the trumpet.
