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April 2026

20 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II [273] Acts 6:8-15; Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30; John 6:22-29.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Marcellinus, BishopOptional 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:95th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:69th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:13th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:76th birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:74th birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1586The first and trial edition of the Ratio Studiorum was issued under Fr. General Claudio Acquaviva.
1586The first Ratio Studiorum was issued under Father General Claude Aquaviva.
1842Jesuits return to Canada. Superior Peter Chazelle is appointed. 1864. Father Peter de Smet left St. Louis to evangelize the Sioux Indians.
1893Robert I. Gannon, S.J. is born. Staten Island. He was President of Fordham University, and a famous after dinner speaker.
1955Pedro Leturia, S.J. dies Rome, historian. He was the founding director of the Archivum Historicum Societatis, Jesu.
1996Francis McCool, S.J. dies. He had been a professor of Scripture at the Biblicum in Rome.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April