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| violet | Monday 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 |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Photina, the Samaritan woman (cf. Jn. 4:4-42) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Archippus, disciple of Paul (cf. Phlm. 1-2) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 187th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Etterlé (37) d. 1897 at Caia, l Zambezi.  |
| Anniversary: | 132nd anniversary of the death of P. Kevin Lenaghan (52) d. 1952 at Rondebosch, RSA. |
| Birthday: | 95th birthday of S. Tafumanei Eric CHIKANYA (born this day in 1989). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1393 | St. John Nepomucene dies, being thrown into the Moldau in Bohemia. (In the new RM) |
| 1571 | Borgia orders the Jesuits to withdraw from the Florida mission, seeing little or no fruit of their labors. "Shake the dust from your feet." |
| 1597 | At Rome the death of Fr. James Terry, a Scotsman. When he was a scholastic, St. Ignatius reputedly appeared to him and told him to study less and pray more. |
| 1873 | Jules Lebreton, S.J. is born. Historian and theologian. |
| 1899 | Teilhard de Chardin enters the novitiate at Aix en Provence. He joins C.C. Martindale who was already a novice, on rest there to complete his novitiate. |
| 1977 | Horacio de Ia Costa, S.J. dies Philippine Jesuit historian, had been provincial and then assistant to the General in Rome. |
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