[395] Mic 6:1-4, 6-8;Ps 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21+23; Matt 12:38-42.
Hours of the day.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Epaphras, disciple of Saint Paul (cf. Col. 4:12-13) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
177th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Riviere (30) d. 1883 at Tete, Province of Mozambique.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1657
At Brunsberg died Father George Marchienicz, a Pole, a great servant of our Lady. He often exclaimed: "O Society of Jesus, the glory which surrounds The thrones of kings is nothing compared with thine."
1688
Brother Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J. is born. Painter and missionary to China. "One Hundred Excellent Horses" is his most famous painting. He had studied under Br. Andrea Pozzo and sailed for China when 27 years old. There he undertook the role of the official painter to this distant court with the positive conviction that art was above all a means of carrying out his evangelical mission.
1790
Father de Cloriviere, acting, it would seem under divine inspiration, founded the Congregations of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and of "Les Filles de Marie."
1951
Death of Jacques Sevin, Founder of the Catholic Scouts of France.
