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June 2080

17 Monday
  greenMonday of the eleventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [365] 1 Kgs 21:1-16; Ps 5:2-3ab, 4b-6a, 6b-7; Matt 5:38-42.
 Hours of the day.
Anniversary:121st anniversary of the death of F. John Buskens (79) d. 1959 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:79th birthday of S. Eliezer Chitoshi CHONGO (born this day in 2001).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1537At Venice, St. Ignatius and his Companions were ordained deacons. 1558. The First General Congregation is convened.
1537Ignatius and his companions received minor orders at the house of Bishop Vincenzo Negusanti in Venice, Italy.
1581Church 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.
1673Marquette 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.
1700A new, stricter law against the Jesuits is passed in Massachusetts.
1900The martyrdom at Wuyi, China, of Blessed Modeste Andlauer and Blessed Rémy Aroré, slain during the Boxer Rebellion.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2080

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  10
Epact  viii
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology h
Roman Year of Indiction 13
Julian Period Year 6793
Years since the confirmation of the Society 540
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  524
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 59
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 7 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    14 April