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Thursday of the third week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle I
[190] Isa 54:1-10;Ps 30:2+4, 5-6, 11-12a+13b; Luke 7:24-30.
Hours of the day.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Haggai, prophet (cf. Hg. 1:1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. David, king and all the antecedents of Christ (cf. 2 Sa 5:4–11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
102nd anniversary of the death of P. Ladislaus Bulsiewicz (40) d. 1919 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hector (64) d. 1953 at Musami, S. Rhodesia.
Birthday:
77th birthday of P. Roland VON NIDDA (born this day in 1944).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1545
The Council of Trent opens. Five Cardinals and 31 Bishops are present. Fathers Laynez and Salmeron are present as Papal theologians and Father Claude Le Jay as theologian of Cardinal Otto Truchsess. Martin Luther dies two months after the Council opens.
1624
At Rome died Fr. Francis Sacchini, an early historian and secretary of the Society. He never wasted a moment of time. Pointing to an aged muleteer he said: "That is my father."
1643
Michael Le Tellier is born. He was a Provincial and a confessor to Louis XIV, and an enemy of the Jansenists.
1657
Return from Canada to France of Father Anthony Poncet, horribly maimed. and mutilated by the Iroquois Indians.
1935
Pietro Boetto is made a cardinal. He had been provincial, Procurator General, and Assistant for Italy.
1965
The death of Felix Restrepo in Bogota, Colombia. A decree of the President honored him at his death, as a Christian humanist, scholar, writer on literature, philosophy, history, and linguistics.
