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March 2078

17 Thursday
  violetThursday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [247] Exod 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23; John 5:31-47.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt 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
   whiteSt Patrick, Co-Patronal Feast of the ArchdioceseFeast
Mass of the saint, Gloria, proper readings, preface of saints.
Anniversary:126th anniversary of the death of P. Nicholas Ryan (65) d. 1952 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:121st anniversary of the death of P. Waldermarus Seidel (74) d. 1957 at Lusaka, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:102nd anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Mclnally (80) d. 1976 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:100th anniversary of the death of P. John Coyne (89) d. 1978 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:117th birthday of P. Paul MAYERESA (born this day in 1961).
Birthday:116th birthday of P. Peter KNOX (born this day in 1962).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1545At Meliapore, Francis Xavier came on pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Thomas the Apostle.
1581Fr. Alessandro Valignani founds a Jesuit college in Japan.
1649Gabriel Lalemant, S.J. dies, one of the martyrs of North America. He dies one day after Jean de Brebeuf.
1652Fr. Goswin Nickel is elected General in succession to Fr. Gottifredi, who died six weeks after his election.
1667At Paris, the death of Felipe Labbe who wrote a 17 volume collection of the decrees of Church Councils.
1780The 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.
1865As Japan opens up, Fr. Pelitjean discovers 50,000 Catholics who had kept the faith for 200 years with no priest, but only baptism.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2078

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6791
Years since the confirmation of the Society 538
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  522
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 57
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 May