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| white | The Chair of St Peter, apostle | Feast |
| Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. |
| [535] 1 Pet 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Matt 16:13-19. |
| Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
| Anniversary: | 173rd anniversary of the death of F. Joseph BĂ©dard (44) d. 1889 at Quelimane, Province of Mozambique.  |
| Anniversary: | 99th anniversary of the death of P. Ludger Boekenhoff (58) d. 1963 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 87th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Williams (76) d. 1975 at East London, RSA. |
| Birthday: | 97th birthday of P. Thomas PLASTOW (born this day in 1965). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1551 | The Roman College, now the Gregorian, announces its opening. It begins the next day, indebted to the support of Francis Borgia. The sign reads: "Classes in Grammar, the Humanities, and Christian Doctrine. No Tuition." It begins with 15 teachers and 60 students. |
| 1564 | At Paris, against much opposition, a Jesuit school was opened, College Louis-le-Grand, one of the greatest Jesuit schools. |
| 1599 | By Clement VIII's order, the Generals of the Society and of the Dominicans, with other Fathers of both Orders, met together to settle, if possible, the controversy "De Auxiliis." Nothing came of it. |
| 1622 | 3rd translation of the body of Ignatius, 12 days before his cnonization. Already in the Gesu, it is placed under the main altar in the same urn as now. |
| 1624 | The martyrdom at Sendai, Japan, of James Carvalho, who ministered to miners in the northern islands of Japan until the local ruler turned against the Christians and killed Carvalho by exposing him in the frigid waters of a river. |
| 1892 | John Gilmary Shea, historian dies. He was a member of the Society of Jesus between the years 1848-1852. The Father of American Catholic Church history, he wrote a four vol. History and 15 vol. Dictionary of Native AmericanLanguages. |
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