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On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1553 | Xavier's coffin is opened and his body is found incorrupt, seventy- seven days after death. |
| 1673 | Moliere, age 51, dies in Paris, hours after playing the leading role in his play, the Imaginary Invalid. Jesuit Alumnus. |
| 1832 | Jesuits 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. |
| 1900 | The Scholasticate at Grand Coteau, LA burns and is left in ashes. |
| 1970 | Augustine Ellard, S.J. dies One of the three founders of Review for Religious. |
| 1978 | Georgetown 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. |
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