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Tuesday in the First Week of Lent
18th World Day of Social Justice (est. 2007)
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[225] Isa 55:10-11;Ps 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19; Matt 6:7-15.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
82nd anniversary of the death of P. Christian Malin (64) d. 1942 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
63rd anniversary of the death of P. James B. Rowland (72) d. 1961 at Holywell, Wales.
Anniversary:
6th anniversary of the death of P. António Pereira dos Reis (82) d. 2018 at Lisbon, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1515
Ignatius commits a grave crime in Azpeitia, and a process begins against him.
1528
Ignatius age 36, arrives in Paris to continue his studies, including Latin. He will stay there seven years. It was a journey of 700 miles.
1582
Three Japanese princes sailed from Japan for Rome to pay homage to Pope Gregory XIII. Fr. Valignani, who arranged the embassy, accompanied them as far as Goa.
1647
Br. Cuthbert Prescott dies in prison. He used to send Catholic youth to St. Omer by ship, in defiance of the penal laws. About 100 made the trip annually.
1896
Henri de Lubac, S.J. is born. theologian, later a Cardinal.
1927
Fr. Anthony J. Maas, S.J. dies Life of Jesus According to Gospel History, familiar to many novices. Was written in 1891. He had also been a tertian instructor, and Provincial from 1912-18.
1947
The Maryland Provincial David Nugent announces that the province is being given the Jamshedpur Mission, from the Ranchi and Calcutta Provinces.
1986
The death of Fr. James Walsh, founder and long time editor of The Way.
