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February 2068

16 Thursday
 greenThursday of the sixth week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle II [338] Jas 2:1-9; Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Mark 8:27-33.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:133rd anniversary of the death of P. Peter Dupeyron (79) d. 1935 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales. Read Obituary
Birthday:73rd birthday of S. Casper Kudzaishe MABVUNDWI (born this day in 1995).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1624At Toledo, Fr. Juan de Mariana dies. He was a theologian and writer of a 30 volume history of Spain.
1624At Valladolid died Ven. Father Louis de Ponte, a Spaniard, justly renowned for his holiness of life and his ascetical writings.
1776In 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.
1811At 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.
1953Fr. Leonard Feeney is officially excommunicated. He had been dismissed from the Society of Jesus in 1949.
1959Fidel Castro becomes the leader of Cuba. Jesuit alumnus.
2008Walter Burghardt dies, age 93. Famed preacher, patristics scholar, writer, worked for Theological Studies for 44 years as managing editor and editor.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2068

Dominical Letter  A g
Golden Number  17
Epact  25
Solar Cycle 5
Letter of the Martyrology F
Roman Year of Indiction 1
Julian Period Year 6781
Years since the confirmation of the Society 528
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  512
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 47
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 22 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    29 April