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| violet | Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25. |
| Hours of the day |
| | Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC] | | white | St Marcellinus, Bishop | Optional | | Common of Pastors |
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| Anniversary: | 164th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Hornig (75) d. 1931 at Bulawayo, S. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 138th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Wilmot (88) d. 1957 at Heythrop, England. |
| Anniversary: | 82nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Groselj (69) d. 2013 at Nangoma, Zambia. |
| Birthday: | 145th birthday of P. Christopher CHATTERIS (born this day in 1950). |
| Birthday: | 143rd birthday of P. O. Kenneth JOHNSON (born this day in 1952). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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