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| white | Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| Anniversary of the election of Pope Benedict XVI (2005) | |
| Anniversary: | 107th anniversary of the death of P. Michael McMahon (55) d. 1921 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 88th anniversary of the death of F. Daniel Shields (72) d. 1940 at Rainhill, Merseyside, England. |
| Anniversary: | 66th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Flood (HIB) (31) d. 1962 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Anniversary: | 41st anniversary of the death of P. Francis X Sharp (76) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England. |
| Anniversary: | 10th anniversary of the death of P. John O'Holohan (HIB) (95) d. 2018 at Zomba, Malawi. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1527 | At Alcala St. Ignatius was imprisoned for forty-two days. |
| 1541 | St. Ignatius is elected general, after declining the first election. He accepts the second election of April 13th, after praying over the decision and with the advice of his Franciscan confessor. |
| 1602 | At Tyburn, Ven. James Ducket, a layman, suffered death for publishing a work written by Robert Southwell. |
| 1964 | Joseph Glose dies. A Jesuit Educator, at the center of the Jesuit Education Association for 21 years. |
| 1993 | Joseph Sellinger dies. He had been President of Loyola College, Baltimore, for many years. |
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