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February 2079

17 Friday
 greenFriday of the sixth week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [339] Gen 11:1-9; Ps 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15; Mark 8:34-9:1.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteThe Seven Holy Founders of the Servite order
Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [533] Rom 8:26-30 (#740.1); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Matt 19:27-29 (#742.9).
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On this day in our Jesuit history...

1553Xavier's coffin is opened and his body is found incorrupt, seventy- seven days after death.
1673Moliere, age 51, dies in Paris, hours after playing the leading role in his play, the Imaginary Invalid. Jesuit Alumnus.
1832Jesuits returned to Portugal, where one of their earliest tasks was to prepare and preside at the services for the as-yet unburied body of Pombal, the man who had banished the Society from Portugal in 1759.
1900The Scholasticate at Grand Coteau, LA burns and is left in ashes.
1970Augustine Ellard, S.J. dies One of the three founders of Review for Religious.
1978Georgetown University confers a degree on Archbishop Oscar Romero in the Cathedral of San Salvador, for his leadership for justice and human rights. He will die a martyr for justice.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2079

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6792
Years since the confirmation of the Society 539
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  523
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 58
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 23 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    23 April