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April 2073

18 Tuesday
  whiteTuesday in the Fourth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [280] Acts 11:19-26; Ps 87:1b-3, 4-5, 6-7; John 10:22-30.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:190th anniversary of the death of P. William Vierin (43) d. 1883 at Mopeia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:144th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Simonis (87) d. 1929 at Dunbrody, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:88th anniversary of the death of P. Josip Weissgerber (CRO) (63) d. 1985 at Zagreb, Croatia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of P. John Monaghan (74) d. 1995 at Portland, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:65th anniversary of the death of P. Vital Dias Pereira (87) d. 2008 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Birthday:139th birthday of P. J. Paul BRASSIL (born this day in 1934).
Birthday:108th 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 2073

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 10
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6786
Years since the confirmation of the Society 533
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  517
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 52
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 26 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    30 April