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whiteSecond Sunday of Easter (Sunday of Divine Mercy) [Octave Day of Easter].(Formerly known as Dominica in Albis (Sunday in White), Quasimodo Sunday or Low Sunday .) Mass of the Sunday, Gloria , Creed, Preface of Easter I ("on this Easter day"); Easter Communicantes and Hanc igitur ; double alleluia at dismissal. Yr C [45] Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24; Rev 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19; John 20:19-31. Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum . Anniversary: 100th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia. Anniversary: 74th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England. Anniversary: 18th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia. Birthday: 81st birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950). Birthday: 79th birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952). 1586 The first and trial edition of the Ratio Studiorum was issued under Fr. General Claudio Acquaviva. 1586 The first Ratio Studiorum was issued under Father General Claude Aquaviva. 1842 Jesuits return to Canada. Superior Peter Chazelle is appointed. 1864. Father Peter de Smet left St. Louis to evangelize the Sioux Indians. 1893 Robert I. Gannon, S.J. is born. Staten Island. He was President of Fordham University, and a famous after dinner speaker. 1955 Pedro Leturia, S.J. dies Rome, historian. He was the founding director of the Archivum Historicum Societatis, Jesu. 1996 Francis McCool, S.J. dies. He had been a professor of Scripture at the Biblicum in Rome.
