18 Friday
greenFriday of the sixth week. Mass of the day. Cycle I [339] Gen 11:1-9; Hours of the day. redSt John I, pope and martyrCommon of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors: For a Pope Optional Anniversary: 82nd anniversary of the death of P. Eugénio Witz (79) d. 1953 at Soutelo, Braga, Portugal. Anniversary: 21st anniversary of the death of F. Alphonse McAndrew (CDA) (82) d. 2014 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Birthday: 44th birthday of NS. Dennis Simbarashe ALUBEMBE (born this day in 1991). Birthday: 53rd birthday of P. Nelson NYAMAYARO (born this day in 1982). 1534 Peter Faber is ordained a priest, the first of the companions to become a priest. He says his first Mass on July 22. 1675 Pere Jacques Marquette dies, age 37, at Ludington, Michigan. Explorer of the Mississippi. 1675 The death in Canada, at age 37, of James Marquette, Jesuit missionary who gained lasting reknown for exploring the Mississippi River. 1711 Ruggero Giuiseppi Boscovich, S.J. is born. Astronomer and Mathematician. 1975 Mass for the closing of Woodstock College, New York City. 1985 Thomas Moore, S.J. dies. He was Editor of the Sacred Heart Messenger and director of the Apostleship of Prayer.
