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July 2063

15 Sunday
  greenFifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
144th Sea Sunday (est. 1919)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
Yr B [104] Amos 7:12-15; Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14; Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10; Mark 6:7-13.
 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:116th birthday of P. Fidelis MUKONORI (born this day in 1947).
Birthday:86th birthday of P. Watson Guveya MATARA (born this day in 1977).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1560The 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.
1570Blessed 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.
1583Queen 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.
1773At 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.
2018Fr. Sosa announced an Ignatian Year between 2021 and 2022. 500th Anniversary of the Conversion of Ignatius, and 400th Anniversary of his canonization.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2063

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  12
Epact  *
Solar Cycle 28
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6776
Years since the confirmation of the Society 523
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  507
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 42
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    22 April