[103] Isa 55:10-11; Ps 65:10, 11, 12-13, 14; Rom 8:18-23; Matt 13:1-23 or 13:1-9.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 3 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Uriel, archangel (cf. 2 Esd. 4:1–11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:
82nd birthday of P. Fidelis MUKONORI (born this day in 1947).
Birthday:
52nd birthday of P. Watson Guveya MATARA (born this day in 1977).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1560
The martyrdom of Ignacio Azevedo along with 39 companions near Palma, one of the Canary Isles. En route to Brazil as missionaries, they were captured by Calvinist corsairs.
1570
Blessed Ignatius Azevedo with 39 companions suffer martyrdom near Palma, one of the Canary Isles, being run through with pikes and cast into the sea by Calvinist corsairs: 2 priests,12 scholastics, 10 novices and 16 brothers. St. Teresa of Avila had a vision of them ascending into heaven.
1583
Queen Elizabeth’s statute declaring Jesuits to be guilty of high treason. l597. At Lisbon died Fr. Simao Rodriguez, one of the first ten Fathers of the Society, destined by St. Ignatius for India with Xavier, but retained in Portugal by King John Ill.
1773
At Ferrara Cardinal Borghese, anticipating the Suppression, closed the Jesuit College, deprived the Fathers of faculties, pretended to release the scholastics. from their vows, and sent the novices home.
2018
Fr. Sosa announced an Ignatian Year between 2021 and 2022. 500th Anniversary of the Conversion of Ignatius, and 400th Anniversary of his canonization.
