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April 2097

18 Thursday
  whiteThursday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [276] Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9, 16-17, 20; John 6:44-51.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:214th anniversary of the death of P. William Vierin (43) d. 1883 at Mopeia, Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:168th anniversary of the death of F. Francis Simonis (87) d. 1929 at Dunbrody, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:112th anniversary of the death of P. Josip Weissgerber (CRO) (63) d. 1985 at Zagreb, Croatia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:102nd anniversary of the death of P. John Monaghan (74) d. 1995 at Portland, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:89th anniversary of the death of P. Vital Dias Pereira (87) d. 2008 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Birthday:163rd birthday of P. J. Paul BRASSIL (born this day in 1934).
Birthday:132nd 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 2097

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 6
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6810
Years since the confirmation of the Society 557
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  541
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 76
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May