| 19 Monday | |
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| white | The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church | Memorial |
| Mass of the Memorial (Votive Mass
#10B) | |
| These readings are proper to the
memorial.
cf. [572A] Gen 3: 9-15, 20 or Acts 1: 12-14; Ps 86:
1-2, 3 & 5, 5-7; Jn 19: 25-34 | |
| Hours of the memorial (From Votive Masses: 10. Blessed Virgin Mary, B. Our Lady, Mother of the Church.) |
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| | Seasonal weekday readings: |
| | [341] Sir 1:1-10; Ps 93:1, 1ab, 1cd-2, 5; Mark 9:14-29. |
| Anniversary: | 132nd anniversary of the death of P. James Robinson (86) d. 1949 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 119th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Figueiredo (88) d. 1962 at Tananarive, Madagascar. |
| Anniversary: | 83rd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Friedrich (92) d. 1998 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Anniversary: | 61st anniversary of the death of P. Sydney D'Souza (AOR) (85) d. 2020 at Nairobi, Kenya. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1542 | St. Francis Xavier reached Goa, India, after more than a year’s journey. |
| 1547 | Pope Paul IV accedes to the request that the Society of Jesus no longer subjects women to its obedience. "Fiat ut petitur." |
| 1596 | At Perigueux the death of Father Francis de Bordes. Threatened with dismissal in his noviceship because of delicate health, he cast himself before the Rector and said he would remain kneeling at the door-step till he was taken back again. |
| 1651 | The martyrdom at Tyburn, England, of Blessed Peter Wright, a former soldier who returned to his homeland as a Jesuit and was hanged. |
| 1652 | The birth of Paul Hoste, S.J. a mathematician and expert on the construction of ships and history of naval warfare. |
| 1769 | At Rome the election of Pope Clement XIV, Cardinal Lorenzo Ganganelli, who is said to have owed to the Jesuits his elevation to the Cardinalate. He would later suppress the Society of Jesus. |
| 1988 | Seavey Joyce, S.J. dies one-time president of Boston College. |
| 1991 | Zoltan Alseghy, S.J. dies Moral theologian of the Alseghy-Flick team. |
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