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| white | SACRED HEART OF JESUS | Solemnity |
| 65th World Day for the Sanctification of Priests (est. 2002) |
| Mass of the solemnity. Gloria, creed; Preface of Sacred Heart | |
| Yr B | (Sunday Lect.) [171] Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9; Isa 12:2-3, 4, 5-6; Eph 3:8-12, 14-19; John 19:31-37. |
| Anniversary: | 139th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Biehler (66) d. 1927 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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