85th anniversary of the death of F. John Buskens (79) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Birthday:
43rd birthday of S. Eliezer Chitoshi CHONGO (born this day in 2001).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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.
