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| red | St Matthew, apostle and evangelist | Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. | | | Yr A | [643] Eph 4:1-7, 11-13; Ps 19:2-3, 4-5; Matt 9:9-13. | | | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Matthew, evangelist (cf. Mt. 9:9) [from the Roman Martyrology]. | | [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Jonah, prophet (cf. Jon. 2:1) [from the Roman Martyrology]. | |
| Birthday: | 42nd birthday of P. Admire Rufaro NHIKA (born this day in 1981). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1557 | Melchior Cano is accused of being a heretic in disguise, and so he writes to Charles V, whose confessor he was. |
| 1558 | St. Francis Borgia preaches the eulogy for the Emperor Charles V at Valladolid. |
| 1761 | At Lisbon, the martyrdom of Fr. Gabriel Malagrida, aged seventy two. Pombal's inquisitors had found him guilty of heresy in a life of St. Anne written not by him, but by the ex- Capuchin, Norbert. He died by strangulation and the flames. |
| 1851 | In Rome at the Basilica of St. Peter, Pope Pius IX beatiļ¬ed Peter Claver, "The apostle of the slaves." |
| 1996 | Henri Nouwen dies, age 64 in Holland. He was a spiritual writer and teacher, and at the end he lived and worked with LāArche communities. Jesuit alumnus. |
| 1999 | Piet Schoonenberg, S.J. dies, age 87. Theologian. New Dutch Catechism, The Christ. |
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