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18 Saturday
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Saturday of the eleventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[370] 2 Chr 24:17-25;Ps 89:4-5, 29-30, 31-32, 33-34; Matt 6:24-34.
Hours of the day.
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Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
Anniversary:
95th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Biehler (66) d. 1927 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1581
Gregory XIII visits the Gregorian, as its benefactor, to oversee the construction.
1817
Archbishop Leonard Neale dies. He was a Jesuit until the Suppression and a President of Georgetown. He succeeded Archbishop John Carroll in Baltimore.
1844
Seventeen Jesuits arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, to e-establish the Society 80 years after Jesuits were banished.
1860
Five Jesuits are killed in Syria by Druses.
1972
Edward "Doc" Bunn, S.J. dies Georgetown President.
1978
Gaston Fessard, S.J. dies Philosopher, author, expert on the Spiritual Exercises.
2004
The Toledo and Castille provinces merge to form the Castille Province.
