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April 2078

20 Wednesday
  whiteWednesday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II [275] Acts 8:1b-8; Ps 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a; John 6:35-40.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Marcellinus, BishopOptional 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:147th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:121st anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:65th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:128th birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:126th 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 2078

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6791
Years since the confirmation of the Society 538
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  522
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 57
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 May