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| white | Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest | Feast |
| Mass of the feast. Gloria, Preface of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church | |
| Yr C | Isa 6:1-4,8 or Heb 2:10-18; Ps 23 (22):2-3, 5, 6 (â„ź.1); John 17:1-2, 9, 14-26.
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| Hours of the feast. Te Deum. | |
| Anniversary: | 121st anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 115th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 69th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 61st anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Anniversary: | 59th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaw Nowicki (73) d. 1984 at Lusaka, Zambia. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1568 | Pope St. Pius V wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Cologne asking him to befriend the Society of Jesus and its college in that city. |
| 1758 | Laurence Ricci is elected General. He was chosen to guide the Society through a sea of storms. He will die in 1775 after imprisonment in Castel S. Angelo. |
| 1925 | Pius XI canonizes Peter Canisius, with Teresa of the Child Jesus and Mary Madeleine Postal, Madeleine Sophie Barat, John Vianney, and John Eudes. Canisius is declared a Doctor of the Church. |
| 2003 | The death of Victor Mertens, S.J. age 90. He had been Vice-Provincial and Provincial of Central Africa, Counselor to Fr. General and Assistant for Africa from 1971-80. |
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