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July 2091

20 Friday
  greenFriday of the fifteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [393] Exod 11:10-12:14; Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18; Matt 12:1-8.
 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:164th anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Delplace (86) d. 1927 at Bruges, Belgium. Read Obituary
Anniversary:83rd anniversary of the death of P. Thomas M. Valiquette (75) d. 2008 at Centennial, USA.
Anniversary:75th anniversary of the death of S. Lucídio Ribeiro (77) d. 2016 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:70th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Keaney (SAP) (72) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:92nd birthday of S. Eusébio Mariano SAMUEL (born this day in 1999).

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 2091

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  2
Epact  x
Solar Cycle 28
Letter of the Martyrology k
Roman Year of Indiction 9
Julian Period Year 6804
Years since the confirmation of the Society 551
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  535
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 70
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 8 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 April