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April 2091

2 Monday
  violetMonday of Holy Week
Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II
 [257] Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14; John 12:1-11.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:136th anniversary of the death of F. António TimóTeo (86) d. 1955 at Caldinhas, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:83rd anniversary of the death of F. Brutus Clay (90) d. 2008 at Chicago, USA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:75th anniversary of the death of F. Joe Mandaza (84) d. 2016 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:98th birthday of S. Christopher Takudzwa TAMBURAYI (born this day in 1993).
86th 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 2091

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  2
Epact  x
Solar Cycle 28
Letter of the Martyrology k
Roman Year of Indiction 9
Julian Period Year 6804
Years since the confirmation of the Society 551
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  535
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 70
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 8 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 April