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| white | Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest | Feast |
| Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church | |
| Yr A | Gen 22:9-18 or Heb 10:4-10; Ps 40 (39):7-8a, 10-11ab, 17 (â„Ÿ. 8a, 9a); Matt 26:36-42.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| Anniversary: | 79th anniversary of the death of F. John Buskens (79) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
| Birthday: | 37th birthday of S. Eliezer Chitoshi CHONGO (born this day in 2001). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1537 | At Venice, St. Ignatius and his Companions were ordained deacons. 1558. The First General Congregation is convened. |
| 1537 | Ignatius and his companions received minor orders at the house of Bishop Vincenzo Negusanti in Venice, Italy. |
| 1581 | Church of St. Mary's, Oxford, Commencement Day. The pamphlet of Edmund Campion, Ten Reasons appears and it is his call to debate. But he will be martyred in less than one year. |
| 1673 | Marquette and Joliet are the first Europeans to see the upper Mississippi River. Marquette writes: "We entered the Mississippi with a joy I am unable to express." He names it the River of the Immaculate Conception. He saw it at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. |
| 1700 | A new, stricter law against the Jesuits is passed in Massachusetts. |
| 1900 | The martyrdom at Wuyi, China, of Blessed Modeste Andlauer and Blessed Rémy Aroré, slain during the Boxer Rebellion. |
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