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Thursday in the Second Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[233] Jer 17:5-10;Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6; Luke 16:19-31.
Hours of the day.
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St Patrick, bishop Common of Pastors: For Missionaries Readings from the Common of Saints: [541] 1 Peter 4:7b-11 (#740.15); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8b, 10 (#721.5); Luke 5:1-11 (#724.7).
Commemoration
Archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa
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St Patrick, Co-Patronal Feast of the Archdiocese
Feast
Mass of the saint, Gloria, proper readings, preface of saints.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. Nicholas Ryan (65) d. 1952 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
65th anniversary of the death of P. Waldermarus Seidel (74) d. 1957 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Mclnally (80) d. 1976 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
44th anniversary of the death of P. John Coyne (89) d. 1978 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
61st birthday of P. Paul MAYERESA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:
60th birthday of P. Peter KNOX (born this day in 1962).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1545
At Meliapore, Francis Xavier came on pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas the Apostle.
1581
Fr. Alessandro Valignani founds a Jesuit college in Japan.
1649
Gabriel Lalemant, S.J. dies, one of the martyrs of North America. He dies one day after Jean de Brebeuf.
1652
Fr. Goswin Nickel is elected General in succession to Fr. Gottifredi, who died six weeks after his election.
1667
At Paris, the death of Felipe Labbe who wrote a 17 volume collection of the decrees of Church Councils.
1780
The ambassadors of France, Spain, and Portugal try in vain to force Pope Pius IV to confirm the brief of Suppression and to excommunicate the Jesuits in Russia.
1865
As Japan opens up, Fr. Pelitjean discovers 50,000 Catholics who had kept the faith for 200 years with no priest, but only baptism.
