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| green | Wednesday of the eleventh week. | |
| Mass of the day. |
| Cycle II | [367] 2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14;
Ps 31:20, 21, 24; Matt 6:1-6, 16-18.
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| | Hours of the day. |
| Anniversary: | 143rd anniversary of the death of P. Edward Biehler (66) d. 1927 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
| Jubilee: | Blue Sapphire Jubilee of P. Anesu Douglas MANYERE who celebrates 65 years of Priesthood today. |
| Jubilee: | Emerald Jubilee of S. Lovemore MASHIRI who celebrates 55 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Emerald Jubilee of S. Tafumanei Eric CHIKANYA who celebrates 55 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Emerald Jubilee of D. Ricardo Sebastian NOGUEIRO who celebrates 55 years in the Society today. |
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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