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January 2074

16 Tuesday
 greenTuesday of the second week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle II [312] 1 Sam 16:1-13; Ps 89:20, 21-22, 27-28; Mark 2:23-28.
 Hours of the day.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1554St. Ignatius manifests the desire, if the Society allows, to go to Africa and work on the mission he established there.
1656At Meliapore died Father Robert de Nobili, nephew of Cardinal Bellarmine. Sent to the Madura Mission, he learned to speak three languages and for 45 years labored with great fruit among the Brahmins of the highest caste.
1679In Wales Fr. Ignatius Price, pursued for alleged complicity in the Titus Oates plot, dies of exhaustion and exposure to the cold.
1860At Calcutta, Belgian Jesuits opened St. Francis Xavier College.
1987Robert F. Hartnett, S.J. from Chicago, was editor of America magazine. January 17

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2074

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 11
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6787
Years since the confirmation of the Society 534
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  518
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 53
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    22 April