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| Anniversary: | 156th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Dupeyron (79) d. 1935 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.  |
| Birthday: | 96th birthday of S. Casper Kudzaishe MABVUNDWI (born this day in 1995). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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