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July 2073

20 Thursday
  greenThursday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [392] Exod 3:13-20; Ps 105:1, 5, 8-9, 24-25, 26-27; Matt 11:28-30.
 Hours of the day.
  redSt Apollinaris, bishop and martyr
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Pastors
Readings from the Common of Saints: [601B] Ezek 34:11-16 (#719.9); Ps 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#721.2); John 10:11-16 (#724.10).
Optional
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Elijah, prophet (cf. 2 Kgs. 2:11) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:146th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Delplace (86) d. 1927 at Bruges, Belgium. Read Obituary
Anniversary:65th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas M. Valiquette (75) d. 2008 at Centennial, USA.
Anniversary:57th anniversary of the death of S. Lucídio Ribeiro (77) d. 2016 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:52nd anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Keaney (SAP) (72) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:74th birthday of S. Eusébio Mariano SAMUEL (born this day in 1999).
Jubilee:Diamond Jubilee of P. Admire Rufaro NHIKA who celebrates 60 years of Priesthood today.
Jubilee:Diamond Jubilee of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA who celebrates 60 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541Pope Paul III assigned the church of Our Lady of the Way to the Society of Jesus. It was a small church but St. Ignatius highly esteemed its location in the heart of Rome.
1624At Cracow died John Laskowski, a Polish scholastic, who though not conscious of any mortal sin in his whole life was nonetheless so tormented with scruples that his confessor considered him a martyr of interior suffering.
1872At Rome, gangs of miscreants paraded the streets crying out: "Death to the Friars! Death to the Jesuits!."
1900The death in China of Sts. Paul Denn and Leo Mangin, martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion; the Church celebrates their feast on Feb. 4.
1944An abortive plot against Hitler by General Claus von Stauffenberg and his assistants resulted in the arrest of the Jesuit, Alfred Delp.
1986The Third World Congress of Jesuit Alumni/ae takes place at Versailles, preceded by a pilgrimage to Chartres.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2073

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 10
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 6
Julian Period Year 6786
Years since the confirmation of the Society 533
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  517
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 52
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 26 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    30 April