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| violet | Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25. |
| Hours of the day |
| Anniversary: | 185th anniversary of the death of P. William Vierin (43) d. 1883 at Mopeia, Mozambique.  |
| Anniversary: | 139th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Simonis (87) d. 1929 at Dunbrody, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 83rd anniversary of the death of P. Josip Weissgerber (CRO) (63) d. 1985 at Zagreb, Croatia. |
| Anniversary: | 73rd anniversary of the death of P. John Monaghan (74) d. 1995 at Portland, USA. |
| Anniversary: | 60th anniversary of the death of P. Vital Dias Pereira (87) d. 2008 at Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Birthday: | 134th birthday of P. J. Paul BRASSIL (born this day in 1934). |
| Birthday: | 103rd birthday of P. Sebastian M. MALAMBO (born this day in 1965). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1541 | Ignatius is elected General again, after refusing or declining the first election results. |
| 1541 | On his 35th birthday, St. Francis Xavier embarked from the quay of the Tagus River known as the Place of Tears to go to India with two other Jesuits. The voyage took them 13 months. |
| 1580 | Father Robert Parson, Edmund Campion and Brother Ralph Emerson and others set out from Rome for the English mission. They entered England by different routes and in different disguises. |
| 1906 | Fr. General Luis Martin dies. |
| 1949 | St. Benedict Center, Cambridge, MA, under Fr. Leonard Feeney, is placed under interdict. |
| 1959 | Francis P. Donnelly, S.J. dies New York Province. Teacher, writer, author of many textbooks on English. |
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