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| white | Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest | Feast |
| Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church | |
| Yr A | Gen 22:9-18 or Heb 10:4-10; Ps 40 (39):7-8a, 10-11ab, 17 (â„Ÿ. 8a, 9a); Matt 26:36-42.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| Anniversary: | 79th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 64th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Jubilee: | Sapphire Jubilee of P. Lawrence DAKA who celebrates 45 years in the Society today. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1521 | Ignatius was seriously wounded at Pamplona, Spain, while defending its fortress against the French. |
| 1521 | St. Ignatius was seriously wounded while defending the Castle of Pamplona against the French. |
| 1622 | The death of Pedro Paez, S.J., a Spanish missionary to Ethiopia, the second apostle of Ethiopia. He reached Ethiopia in 1603 after 15 years of journey because en route he was enslaved by Turkish pirates for 7 years. He was the first European to see the source of the blue Nile, he wrote a history of Ethiopia and learned several languages. |
| 1823 | Saint Louis University (St. Louis College) is founded. |
| 1961 | In a letter dated 20 May, Fr. Swain, Vicar-General formally approved the Institute of Jesuit Sources. The plan was launched unofficially the previous year when Fr. Janssens gave Fr. Ganss permission to start work on an English version of the Constitutions. |
| 1968 | J. Franklin (Buck) Ewing, S.J. dies anthropologist, missiologist. |
| 1973 | The Society of Jesus allowed in Switzerland after a Referendum. |
| 1974 | Jean Cardinal Danielou, SJ, dies in Paris, engaged in ministry. |
| 2020 | Death of Adolfo Nicolas in Tokyo. |
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