[159] Mal 3:19-20a; Ps 98:5-6, 7-8, 9; 2 Thess 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
173rd anniversary of the death of P. Ladislaus Menyhárt (48) d. 1897 at Miruru, Zumbo, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
159th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Gordon (80) d. 1911 at Roehampton, England.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of F. Henry Tryers (86) d. 1974 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
82nd anniversary of the death of P. Langlois Lewis (74) d. 1988 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. John Fairhurst (BRI) (90) d. 2021 at Boscombe, England.
Birthday:
137th birthday of P. Horst ULBRICH (born this day in 1933).
Birthday:
72nd birthday of NS. Shingirirai Munahse KARONDERA (born this day in 1998).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Old Jesuit Martyrology - Bl. Paul Navarro and companions.
Saints Roch González, Alphonsus RodrĂguez and John del Castillo, Priests and Martyrs (Optional Memorial)
The Province of Paraguay was established in 1607 to minister to the nomadic GuaranĂ Indian tribes. The first Jesuit priest sent to San Ignacio GuazĂş Mission was Roch González. He was joined in 1627 by Alphonsus RodrĂguez and John del Castillo, both natives of Spain. Their successful missionary activities brought the Jesuits into conflict with a local religious leader, who was responsible for putting the missionaries to death.
1857
Jon Svennson, S.J. is born. He wrote children’s stories about Iceland, and has been translated into forty languages. A native of Iceland, he wrote in German.
1889
Josef Jungmann, S.J. is born. History of Liturgy.
1968
Cardinal Bea, S.J. dies Scripture Scholar, ecumenist. He was Confessor of Pius XI and Pius XII and created a Cardinal in 1959. He was appointed to head Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity at the age of 79.
1989
The assassination in San Salvador, El Salvador, of Ignacio EllacurĂa, Ignacio MartĂn-BarĂł, Segundo Mondes, JoaquĂn LĂłpez, Juan RamĂłn Moreno, and Amando LĂłpez, along with their cook, Elba JuliaRamos, and her daughter Celina Maricet Ramos.
