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April 2039

2 Saturday
  violetSaturday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
 [256] Ezek 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13; John 11:45-56.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt Francis of Paola, hermit
Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [546] Phil 3:8-14 (#740.9); Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 11 (#739.3); Luke 12:32-34 (#742.21).
Commemoration
34th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).
Anniversary:84th anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:31st anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:23rd anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:46th birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993).
34th Anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (2005).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1568At Rome, the entrance of Blessed Rodolf Acquaviva, aged 17, into the novitiate of San Andrea, where St. Stanislaus was then a novice.
1640The death of Matthew Casimir Sarbiewski, S.J. called the "Polish Horace" because of his poetry.
1767In 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.
1802Joseph Schneller dies in Vienna, a famous Jesuit preacher.
1872Samuel Morse dies. He invented the telegraph, and also wrote anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit literature.
1994Anthony 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.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2039

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  7
Epact  v
Solar Cycle 4
Letter of the Martyrology e
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6752
Years since the confirmation of the Society 499
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  483
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 18
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 10 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    17 April