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October 2054

21 Wednesday
  greenWednesday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [475] Eph 3:2-12; Isa 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6; Luke 12:39-48.
 Hours of the day.
  redBl. Diego Luis de San Vitores, priest, and St. Pedro Calungsod, martyrs [SJ]
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement (Download here)                                                                                                                                                                       
From the Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints:
Common of Martyrs: Readings outside Easter Time
I. Wisdom 10:10-14; Ps 116(115):10+15, 16-17, 18-19; John 15:9-17.
II. Phil 1:20b-26; Ps 31(30):3b-4, 6-8a, 16b-17, 21; Matt 10:16-22.
III. 1 Pet 3:14-17; Ps 124(123):2-3, 4-5, 7cd-8; John 12:24-26.
Common of Martyrs: Readings during Easter Time
I. Rev 12:10-12b; Ps 34(33):2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 17:11b-19.
Optional
Anniversary:33rd anniversary of the death of F. Happy Patrick Mzumara (SAP) (61) d. 2021 at Mzuzu, Malawi. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores, Priest, and Saint Pedro Calungsod, Martyrs (Optional Memorial)

Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672) was born in Burgos Spain. At age thirteen he entered the Society of Jesus. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1651, he taught at the university, and preached retreats and missions. He volunteered for the missions, and was sent to the Philippines. In June 1668, he and five other Jesuits were sent to Guam, to establish the first Jesuit mission for the natives in the Ladrones (Marianas) Islands in Micronesia. – Pedro Calungsod, a teenager, was among the exemplary catechists chosen to accompany him as his sacristan, catechist and translator. Vitores and Pedro were brutally killed by an avenging medicine-man and recalcitrant aboriginals in Guam in April 1672.

1568Robert Parsons, later a convert, was elected Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He resigned this fellowship in 1574. He accompanied Fr. Campion to England in 1580 and then in exile labored for the Church in his native land.
1622Emmanuel Ortega dies in Peru. Missionary in South America and companion of Jose Ancieta.
1866Gerard Manley Hopkins is received into the Roman Catholic Church by Newman.
1948A novitiate was established in the Belgian Congo for African Jesuits, with four novice scholastics.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2054

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  3
Epact  xxi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology B
Roman Year of Indiction 2
Julian Period Year 6767
Years since the confirmation of the Society 514
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  498
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 33
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 29 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    3 May