| 2 Wednesday | |
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white | The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls) |
| Mass 1, 2 or 3 of All Souls; 3 readings from [668] or the Common of the Dead [1011ff]; (Creed on Sundays;) Preface for the Dead I - V
Priests may celebrate three Masses; second is offered for all faithful departed, third for intentions of the Pope. | |
| Mass of the solemnity; gloria, creed, preface of the solemnity. |
| | Hours of the Dead with proper 2nd reading for Office of Readings. |
| | Hours of the Solemnity; Te Deum. |
| Anniversary: | 90th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Wisely (49) d. 1954 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1578 | In the Roman College, Father Francis Suarez began to give lectures in theology. Pope Gregory XIII came to hear them. |
| 1585 | Aloysius Gonzaga renounces his family heritage and inheritance at the family palace in Mantua at the age of 17 and joins the Society three weeks later. |
| 1661 | The death of Brother Daniel Seghers, S.J. He was a famous Flemish painter of insects and flowers. He was a pupil of Brueghel and a friend of Rubens. |
| 1769 | Jesuits expelled from the Marianas including Guam. They had extensive land holdings, which went to Augustinans. |
| 1887 | John Bapst, S.J. dies Missionary, and first President of Boston College 1864-69. He was Superior of the Canada/NY Mission 1869-73. He had been tarred and feathered in 1854 in Maine. |
| 1928 | Francis Finn dies. He was a world renowned "juvenile author," with 27 books, many of them translated into several languages. Some scenes and characters came from St. Mary’s College, Kansas. |
| 1971 | Georg Otto Schurhammer, S.J. dies Biographer of Xavier. A missionary in India, he became ill before ordination, and promised to write a life of Xavier if he recovered. He did in four large volumes. It was a life long task. |
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