Mass of the day.
Preface of Ascension or of Easter "...in this time."
Cycle II
[299] Acts 20:28-38;Ps 68:29-30, 33-35a, 35bc-36ab; John 17:11b-19.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
145th anniversary of the death of P. James Robinson (86) d. 1949 at Petworth, W. Sussex, England.
Anniversary:
132nd anniversary of the death of P. Victor Figueiredo (88) d. 1962 at Tananarive, Madagascar.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Friedrich (92) d. 1998 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
74th anniversary of the death of P. Sydney D'Souza (AOR) (85) d. 2020 at Nairobi, Kenya.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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.
