| 20 Monday | |
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| white | The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church | Memorial |
| Mass of the Memorial (Votive Mass
#10B) | |
| These readings are proper to the
memorial.
cf. [572A] Gen 3: 9-15, 20 or Acts 1: 12-14; Ps 86:
1-2, 3 & 5, 5-7; Jn 19: 25-34 | |
| Hours of the memorial (From Votive Masses: 10. Blessed Virgin Mary, B. Our Lady, Mother of the Church.) |
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| | Seasonal weekday readings: |
| | [341] Sir 1:1-10; Ps 93:1, 1ab, 1cd-2, 5; Mark 9:14-29. |
| Anniversary: | 144th anniversary of the death of P. Emil Schmitz (82) d. 1953 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 129th anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Tasman (78) d. 1968 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
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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