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| red | St Luke, evangelist | Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. | | | Yr C | [661] 2 Tim 4:9-17b; Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 17-18; Luke 10:1-9. | | | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Luke, evangelist (cf. Lk. 1:1,3) [from the Roman Martyrology]. | |
| Anniversary: | 108th anniversary of the death of F. William Biermann (67) d. 1926 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 30th anniversary of the death of P. Denis O'Connell (81) d. 2004 at Crossna, Ireland. |
| Anniversary: | 26th anniversary of the death of P. Richard Randolph (92) d. 2008 at Oxford, England. |
| Birthday: | 89th birthday of P. Joseph HAYES (born this day in 1945). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1550 | The first Jesuit is appointed to be Rector/President of a University as Peter Canisius is elected to that office at the University of Ingolstadt (for a six month term). |
| 1553 | A theological course was opened in our college in Lisbon. 400 students were at once enrolled. |
| 1574 | The opening of the first Jesuit College in Mexico, SS. Peter and Paul. 1604. Collegio Santa Fe Opens in Bogota, Columbia, the oldest in Columbia and the third oldest in the Americas, after Lima and Mexico. |
| 1604 | The foundation in Bogotá, Colombia of Colegio Santa Fe; it is the oldest university in Colombia and the third oldest in the Americas, following those in Mexico and Lima. |
| 1605 | In Spain died Father John Rico, a most eloquent preacher. St. Alphonsus Rodriguez once told him he would suffer in Purgatory for preaching in the polished Castilian tongue: thenceforth the Father never used Castilian. |
| 1646 | The martrydom of St. Isaac Jogues at Auriesville, NY. |
| 1904 | "Saint Louis University Day" at the World’s Fair, the culmination of the school’s diamond jubilee celebrations. |
| 1932 | Weston College is given a charter, Pontifical Status, and thus allowed to grant ecclesiastical degrees. |
| 1977 | Harry Sievers, S.J. dies historian of Indiana, and biographer of William Henry Harrison. |
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