Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 4 of the Psalter.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Zacchaeus (cf. Lk. 19:1-10) [from the Roman Martyrology].
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Samuel, prophet (cf. 1 Sa. 1:20) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
135th anniversary of the death of P. Bernardino da Costa AraúJo (73) d. 1949 at Recife, Brazil.
Anniversary:
95th anniversary of the death of P. John Jarski (65) d. 1989 at Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Birthday:
91st birthday of S. Sean Nicholas VAN STADEN (born this day in 1993).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1639
Fr. Jacob Bidermann dies. As a scholastic he wrote Cenodoxus: the Doctor of Paris. He was called the Shakespeare of the German Baroque period.
1820
Restoration of the Society in Austria.
1823
At Rome the death of Pope Pius VII, the restorer of the Society in 1814 and its second Father. His name will remain with us in benediction for ever.
1891
At Santiago in Chile, the Government of Balmaceda ordered the Jesuit College to be closed.
1893
Excitement in Rome because seven Italians were killed in a riot in Frances. Angry shouts were raised by the mob, "Down with the Pope! Death to the Jesuits!" and the windows of the German College were broken.
1972
The death of Pío Buck, a Swiss Jesuit known as the apostle of prisoners in Brasil; he was also famous as an entomologist.
