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May 2052

21 Tuesday
  whiteTuesday in the Fifth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II [286] Acts 14:19-28; Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21; John 14:27-31a.
Hours of the day.
  red St Christopher Magallanes, priest and martyr, and his companions, martyrsOptional
 (Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [566A] Rev 7:9-17 (#714.2); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 (#715.2); John 12:24-26 (#718.5).)
Anniversary:130th anniversary of the death of P. Edward Parry (60) d. 1922 at Katondwe, N. Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:124th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Richartz (73) d. 1928 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Warrington (73) d. 1974 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:70th anniversary of the death of P. David Murphy (HIB) (38) d. 1982 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:68th anniversary of the death of P. Stanislaw Nowicki (73) d. 1984 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1568Pope 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.
1758Laurence 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.
1925Pius 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.
2003The 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.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2052

Dominical Letter  g f
Golden Number  1
Epact  xxix
Solar Cycle 17
Letter of the Martyrology N
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6765
Years since the confirmation of the Society 512
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  496
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 31
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 21 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    21 April