[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:
151st anniversary of the death of P. Emmanuel Almeida (42) d. 1901 at Zumbo, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
139th anniversary of the death of P. Marc Barthelemy (56) d. 1913 at Bulawayo, BSA Co..
Anniversary:
93rd anniversary of the death of F. Hugh Bradley (81) d. 1959 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
86th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Lindekugel (52) d. 1966 at Spokane, WA, USA.
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of F. John Taylor (82) d. 1981 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
34th anniversary of the death of P. Kieran Barry-Ryan (89) d. 2018 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
32nd anniversary of the death of P. Jeremiah O'Connell (ZAM) (83) d. 2020 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1755
Luigi Centurione is elected as Superior General in the GC XVIII. Centurione would lead the Society for a little over two years before he died. Just a few weeks after Carvalho, the marquis de Pombal, tookthefirst overt step to banish the Jesuits from Portugal.
1759
The Bishop of Rio de Janeiro accused the Jesuits of concealing relics and other church treasures belonging to their suppressed churches. All who had knowledge of the matter and refused to disclose it, were to be excommunicated.
1769
On the river La Plata, Father Benasser and two scholastics who were beingn led prisoners from Montevideo to Buenos Aires, were accidentally drowned.
1913
Marc Barthelemy S.J. dies. He was a missionary to Southern Africa and the founder of St. George’s College in Zimbabwe. In his honor was a very well attended funeral in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
1938
St. Roque Gonzalez and his companions are designated as the patron saints of the Latin American Assistancy by Fr. General.
1982
William Byron is installed as the 12th President of the Catholic University of America.
2011
Fr. General announces the eventual introduction of the cause of Fr. Arrupe
