[198] 1 Sam 1:24-28;1 Sam 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd; Luke 1:46-56.
Hours of 22 December
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Anniversary of the approval of our Order (1216). Special prayers for this intention may be made at Mass and at Evening Prayer.
Anniversary:
168th anniversary of the death of F. Arthur Everard (89) d. 1922 at Stonyhurst, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
137th anniversary of the death of P. Michael O‘Reilly (70) d. 1953 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
113th anniversary of the death of P. Michael Hannan (68) d. 1977 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of P. Józef Oleksy (PME) (73) d. 2021 at Nowy Sącz, Poland.
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of P. Robert L. Erickson (UWE) (80) d. 2021 at Los Gatos, CA, USA.
Birthday:
103rd birthday of P. Joaquim Lucas BIRIATE (born this day in 1987).
Birthday:
88th birthday of NS. Eduardo Virgílio FRANCISCO (born this day in 2002).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1588
In Transylvania the Protestants agitate for the expulsion of the Society.
1642
At London the martyrdom of Fr. Thomas Holland. After his sentence he declared himself a priest and a Jesuit and said that he was ready to lay down his life 100 times and more for the Faith. He gave two gold crowns to his executioner.
1649
At Cork the death of David Glawey, a missionary in the Inner and Lower Hebrides, Islay, Oronsay, Colonsay, Arran.
1844
Six Jesuits from Lyon land at Reunion and begin the evangelization of Madagascar.
1933
Vincent McCormick, S.J. is named Rector Magnificus of the Gregorian University.
1977
In Rhodesia, the death of Michael Hannan. He published the first complete dictionary of Shona, and translated the New Testament and parts of the old into Shona.
