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| | red | St. Andrew Kim Taegon, priest and martyr, St. Paul Chong Hasang, catechist and martyr, and their companions, martyrs | Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | | | Cycle I | [445] 1 Tim 3:14-16; Ps 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6; Luke 7:31-35. | | Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [642A] Wis 3:1-9, or Rom 8:31b-39; Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6; Luke 9:23-26. | |
| | Anniversary: | 119th anniversary of the death of F. Walter Ellis (47) d. 1926 at Hackney, London, England.  | | Anniversary: | 33rd anniversary of the death of P. Christian Weichsel (80) d. 2012 at Harare, Zimbabwe. | | Anniversary: | 27th anniversary of the death of P. John Moore (ZAM) (91) d. 2018 at Lusaka, Zambia. | | Birthday: | 99th birthday of P. Eustace SEQUEIRA (born this day in 1946). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
| | 1560 | At Rome, the entrance into the Society of Robert Bellarmine, the nephew of Pope Marcellus II. | | 1565 | S. Andrea in Quirinale, Rome, is opened by St. Francis Borgia as the first separate novitiate, separate from Colleges and Professed Houses. | | 1565 | Under the leadership of Father General Francis Borgia, Sant’Andrea in Quirinale in Rome opened as the first novitiate separate from a colleges or professed house. | | 1990 | The First Congregation of Provincials meets at Loyola, Spain, 83 provincials, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the approval of the Society, and 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Ignatius. | | 2005 | John Long, S.J. dies, age 80. Ecumenist, expert on Eastern Orthodoxy, with the Vatican Secretariat of Unity, and Dialog. | | | | |
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