Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Obadiah, prophet (cf. Ob. 1) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of F. Joseph Lindner (79) d. 1945 at Triashill, Chishawasha, S Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Wardale (61) d. 1989 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
15th anniversary of the death of F. James Lee (UWE) (95) d. 2020 at Los Gatos, CA, USA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1587
The second translation of the body of St. Ignatius. It is moved to the floor of the sanctuary of the Gesu and remains there for 35 years.
1696
According to the provisions of the brief signed by Innocent X, a general congregation had to assemble again nine years after the one that elected Father General Tirso Gonzalez in 1687. Accordingly, the 14th General Congregation met, convoked by the General. Among the twenty-nine decrees, the General Congregation again voted to try to have the nine-year rule for congregations abolished; and again failed to attain its goal
1730
Frantisek Retz is elected General Superior in the 16th General Congregation.
1775
At Rome, Fr. Lorenzo Ricci, imprisoned in Castel Sant’Angelo, five days before his death there read a solemn public protestation of the Society’s innocence of the crimes imputed to it at the Suppression.
1830
Pierre Cazelles, S.J. is named first superior of the French Jesuit mission in Canada. He sails from Bordeaux.
1910
The oath against modernism is taken at the Curia.
1942
The death of Servant of God Joseph Mark Figueroa, a brother who served as porter of the Jesuit college in Santa Fe, Argentina, for 54 years; his profound love of God touched the whole city.
1982
Edward J. Dunne, S.J. dies. Writer, Jesuits in China.
