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April 2070

18 Friday
  whiteFriday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II [277] Acts 9:1-20; Ps 117:1, 2; John 6:52-59.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:187th anniversary of the death of P. William Vierin (43) d. 1883 at Mopeia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:141st anniversary of the death of F. Francis Simonis (87) d. 1929 at Dunbrody, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:85th anniversary of the death of P. Josip Weissgerber (CRO) (63) d. 1985 at Zagreb, Croatia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:75th anniversary of the death of P. John Monaghan (74) d. 1995 at Portland, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:62nd anniversary of the death of P. Vital Dias Pereira (87) d. 2008 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Birthday:136th birthday of P. J. Paul BRASSIL (born this day in 1934).
Birthday:105th birthday of P. Sebastian M. MALAMBO (born this day in 1965).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541Ignatius is elected General again, after refusing or declining the first election results.
1541On 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.
1580Father 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.
1906Fr. General Luis Martin dies.
1949St. Benedict Center, Cambridge, MA, under Fr. Leonard Feeney, is placed under interdict.
1959Francis P. Donnelly, S.J. dies New York Province. Teacher, writer, author of many textbooks on English.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2070

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  19
Epact  xvii
Solar Cycle 7
Letter of the Martyrology s
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6783
Years since the confirmation of the Society 530
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  514
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 49
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May