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21 Friday
red
St Agnes, virgin and martyr
Memorial
Mass of the saint; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II
[315] 1 Sam 24:3-21;Ps 57:2, 3-4, 6+11; Mark 3:13-19.
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Virgins (Readings from the Common of Saints: [516] 1 Cor 1:26-31 (#740.2); Ps 23:1b-3a, 4, 5, 6 (#739.4); Matt 13:44-46 (#742.5).) Hours of the Memorial.
Var. Prop. Texts for Hours
Anniversary:
109th anniversary of the death of P. Aloysius Dhelleme (47) d. 1913 at Ambohimandroso, Madagascar.
Anniversary:
85th anniversary of the death of P. John Manssy (77) d. 1937 at Chishawasha, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
71st anniversary of the death of P. Henry Day (85) d. 1951 at Maidenhead, Berks, England.
Anniversary:
1st anniversary of the death of P. Charles Chilinda (ZAM) (56) d. 2021 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1540
Edmund Campion is born. "The glory and patron of the English Province."
1623
The English Vice-Province becomes a Province, with Richard Blount as the first Provincial.
1652
Election as General of Father Alexander Gottifredo. He died about six weeks after his election, and before the close of the Congregation.
1705
Claude Francois Menestrier, S.J. dies. He wrote a classic history of ballet, and created a ballet for Louis XIV performed at the College of Louis-le-Grand.
1795
The death in Rome of Ignatius Romberg. He was the German Assistant at the time of the Suppression and was imprisoned with Fr. General Ricci in Castel San Angelo.
1869
Fr. Joseph O’Callaghan, the procurator from Maryland is killed in a storm at sea while returning from Rome from a Congregation.
1911
A banquet is held at Georgetown University to honor alumnus Edward Douglas who was Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
1951
The Green House at Woodstock, the workers’ quarters, burns to the ground.
