Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: For the formation of men and women religious, and seminarians (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that men and women religious, and seminarians, grow in their own vocational journey through human, pastoral, spiritual and community formation, that leads them to be credible witnesses of the Gospel."
2 Thursday
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St Athanasius, bishop and doctor of the Church
Memorial
Mass of the memorial; preface of Easter I - V, or of the saint.
Cycle II
[288] Acts 15:7-21;Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 10; John 15:9-11.
Hours of the memorial
Anniversary:
56th anniversary of the death of P. John Waligora (78) d. 1968 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Patrick Walsh (64) d. 1975 at Pretoria, RSA.
Anniversary:
42nd anniversary of the death of P. Richard Copeland (69) d. 1982 at Melbourne, Australia.
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Warner (73) d. 1987 at Wimbledon, London, England.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of P. James Carroll (72) d. 2006 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
50th birthday of P. Elias Bboloka Bubala NCHIMUNYA (born this day in 1974).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1564
Pope Pius the V yielded to Fr. General Lainez' request and approved that the Society should have no Cardinal Protector, but be under the Pope's immediate protection.
1564
Pope Pius V yield to Father General Laynez' request and approved that the Society should have no Cardinal Protector, but be under the pope's immediate protection.
1602
Cardinal Bellarmine's first entrance into Capua. He entered on foot, reciting prayers, and carrying the arm of St. Stephen, Protomartyr.
1602
The birth of Athanasius Kircher, S.J., scientist and polymath.
1706
G. J. Kamel, S.J. Jesuit brother dies. The camellia flower is named after him.
1729
Catherine the Great, is born. Empress for 34 years, she saved the Society of Jesus.
1929
St. Jose Maria Rubio, S.J. dies, Madrid. Apostle of Madrid.
2014
Paolo Molinari, SJ dies. Postulator General of the Society from 1957 to 2008. Worked on the canonization of 39 Saints and Blesseds, age 90.
