[146] Isa 53:10-11; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; Heb 4:14-16; Mark 10:35-45 or 10:42-45.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
98th anniversary of the death of F. Anthony Kowalik (71) d. 1992 at Katondwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
70th anniversary of the death of P. Karl Steffens (ZIM) (84) d. 2020 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1536
Favre, Rodriguez, Salmeron, Bobadilla, Jay, Codure, and Broet are granted their M.A. degrees. Lainez and Xavier already had theirs.
1642
Charles Raymbault dies French missionary, the first to die in Canada. He is buried next to Samuel Champlain.
1861
Beaumont Lodge, Old Windsor, the Novitiate of the English Province from 1854-1861, was opened as a College.
1870
In France, Garibaldi and his filibusters drove the Jesuits from the Colleges of Dole and Mont Roland.
1986
Frances Xavier Weiser, S.J. dies. Writer, on liturgy and church feasts. Also wrote a book for youth that sold one million copies, and was translated into forty languages, The Light on the Mountain.
