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| violet | Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25. |
| Hours of the day |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Epaphroditus, disciple of Paul (cf. Phil. 2:25) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 180th anniversary of the death of P. Thomas Manning (38) d. 1893 at Grahamstown, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 156th anniversary of the death of P. Carlos Friedrich (71) d. 1917 at St. Andrä, Austria. |
| Anniversary: | 140th anniversary of the death of F. Angelo Dal Bosco (57) d. 1933 at Baturite, Brazil. |
| Anniversary: | 118th anniversary of the death of P. John Kelly (52) d. 1955 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 71st anniversary of the death of P. Kenneth Spence (77) d. 2002 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1540 | St. Francis Xavier, told by Ignatius to prepare to leave for the Indies, was ready the next day; he needed only sufficient time to have his poor soutane mended. |
| 1585 | In Rome, the three Japanese ambassadors were received by Fr. General with great solemnity in the Society's Church of the Gesu. |
| 1594 | Henry IV took possession of Paris after a prolonged siege. Fr. Possevino and other Jesuits worked at effecting a reconciliation of the king with Rome. |
| 1643 | At Nagasaki, Ven. Father Anthony Rubino, an Italian, after suffering for seven months under the "torture of water," was hanged by the feet in a pit with his head downwards, and so expired. |
| 1655 | Fr. Francis Perez died at Antwerp. He was born on Christmas Day and died on Good Friday. He followed his two sons into the Society of Jesus and they served his first Mass. |
| 1980 | Luis Espinal, S.J. journalist, beaten and machine- gunned, dies a martyr, in Bolivia, aged 48. He worked for the compesinos. |
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