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Friday of the sixth week in Ordinary Time.
Mass ad lib.
Cycle II
[339] Jas 2:14-24, 26;Ps 112:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; Mark 8:34-9:1.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
53rd anniversary of the death of P. Edward Smithies (68) d. 1969 at Spinkhill, Sheffield, England.
Anniversary:
5th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Schmitz (ORE) (78) d. 2017 at Los Gatos, CA, USA.
Birthday:
29th birthday of S. JĂșnior Orcastro de Ganda JONE (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1528
Ignatius arrived in Paris to begin his studies anew after his frustration at AlcalĂĄ and Salamanca.
1551
The opening in the Piazza Ara Coeli of the ïŹrst school of the Society of Jesus in Rome, which soon developed into the Roman College, later to be called the Gregorian University.
1571
A Group of Spanish Jesuits is murdered by Indians in Chesapeake Bay area after six months of activity. This leads to the withdrawal of Jesuits from there as well as Florida.
1967
Robert Leiber, S.J. dies. He was a Professor of History at the Gregorian University, who continued updating Pastor's History of the Papacy.
1978
The death in Rome of Fr. Patrick Treanor, age 58, director of the Vatican Observatory since 1970.
