[420] Ezek 28:1-10;Deut 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd-36ab; Matt 19:23-30.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
93rd anniversary of the death of P. William Withnell (77) d. 1945 at Sea Point, RSA.
Anniversary:
59th anniversary of the death of P. Eugene Pierre (65) d. 1979 at Missoula, Montana, USA.
Anniversary:
45th anniversary of the death of P. Felix McGowan (79) d. 1993 at Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.
Anniversary:
14th anniversary of the death of F. Araújo José de Andrade (SAP) (93) d. 2024 at Maputo, Mozambique.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1559
The death of Pope Paul IV. He ordained in Father Lainez's time that the office of General should be triennial and that Choir should be observed.
1559
The Inquisition publishes a list of forbidden books, including one falsely attributed to Francis Borgia. He flees to Portugal that same year.
1763
Ferdinand Farmer, S.J. dies.
1773
Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine of Russia forbade the publication of the Brief of Suppression in their dominions.
1773
Frederik II of Prussia and Catherine of Russia forbade the publication of the Brief of Suppression in their dominions.
1837
At Portage aux Sioux died Father Charles Van Quickenborne, a Belgian, founder of the present province of Missouri, a great apostle among the Indians. He was the first superior of the Missouri Mission.
1841
The death of S.G. Charles Odescalchi (1786-1841), a cardinal of the Church who waited 20 years to become a Jesuit. He was one of the first to apply to enter the Society after it was restored in 1814, but family pressure and papal resistance kept him from doing so. In 1823 he was named a cardinal and consecrated archbishop of Ferrara, and later was appointed the vicar of Pope Gregory XVI for the diocese of Rome. Finally Odescalchi’s ill health led the pope to permit him to enter the novitiate, which he did in 1838. After he pronounced his vows, he served as spiritual father to young Jesuits at the seminary in Modena.
1917
William Doyle, S.J. dies killed in World War I as a chaplain in Belgium. Servant of God, he said 100,000 aspirations every day.
1925
New Jesuit novitiate opens at Milford, Ohio. On the 20th of the month, the novices enter.
1933
Henri Bremond dies Author, spirituality, ex-Jesuit. Poetry and Prayer. He left the Jesuits in 1904. A devout humanist, member of the French Academy in 1923. History of religious thought.
1954
The place of burial of Jean de Brebeuf is discovered in Canada.
1982
In India, the death of Camille Bulcke, a missionary from Belgium, he was a master of Hindi, a scholar of the language and literature.
