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| white | Tuesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [262] Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; John 20:11-18. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| Anniversary: | 69th anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal.  |
| Anniversary: | 16th anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA. |
| Anniversary: | 8th anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 31st birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993). |
| 19th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005). | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1568 | At Rome, the entrance of Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, aged 17, into the novitiate of San Andrea, where St. Stanislaus was then a novice. |
| 1640 | The death of Matthew Casimir Sarbiewski, S.J. called the "Polish Horace" because of his poetry. |
| 1767 | In Spain, Charles III ordered the arrest of all the Jesuit Fathers and the sequestration of all their houses and goods, being enraged against the Society by a forged letter of the General (the work of De Choiseul), which spoke of him as illegitimate. |
| 1802 | Joseph Schneller dies in Vienna, a famous Jesuit preacher. |
| 1872 | Samuel Morse dies. He invented the telegraph, and also wrote anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit literature. |
| 1994 | Anthony Lawn, S.J. dies. Basically a prison chaplain, in 1985 he was invited to work for and be an actor in the film, The Mission. |
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