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July 2079

15 Saturday
  whiteSt Bonaventure, bishop and doctor of the Church
Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [388] Gen 49:29-32; 50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7; Matt 10:24-33.
Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors, or Common of Doctors of the Church
Readings from the Common of Saints: [600] Eph 3:14-19 (#740.7); Ps 119:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (#727.3); Matt 23:8-12 (#724.3).
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Uriel, archangel (cf. 2 Esd. 4:1–11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Birthday:132nd birthday of P. Fidelis MUKONORI (born this day in 1947).
Birthday:102nd 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 2079

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6792
Years since the confirmation of the Society 539
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  523
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 58
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 23 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    23 April