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Friday after Ash Wednesday.
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[221] Isa 58:1-9a;Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19; Matt 9:14-15.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
89th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Dupeyron (79) d. 1935 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Birthday:
29th birthday of S. Casper Kudzaishe MABVUNDWI (born this day in 1995).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1624
At Toledo, Fr. Juan de Mariana dies. He was a theologian and writer of a 30 volume history of Spain.
1624
At Valladolid died Ven. Father Louis de Ponte, a Spaniard, justly renowned for his holiness of life and his ascetical writings.
1776
In Rome the Jesuit prisoners in Castel S. Angelo were restored to liberty. Father Romberg, the German Assistant, aged eighty, expressed a wish to remain in prison.
1811
At Dublin, the death of Thomas Betagh, the last survivor of the Irish Jesuits of the Old Society. When the Society was suppressed, he opened a Latin school in Dublin and became curate of St. Michael's Church there.
1953
Fr. Leonard Feeney is officially excommunicated. He had been dismissed from the Society of Jesus in 1949.
1959
Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba. Jesuit alumnus.
2008
Walter Burghardt dies, age 93. Famed preacher, patristics scholar, writer, worked for Theological Studies for 44 years as managing editor and editor.
