Golden Jubilee of P. Joseph KEANEY who celebrates 50 years since professing Final Vows today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
The death of Jean Codure, S.J. in Rome.
1555
Fr. Andrew Gonsalves, Paschal and Alphonsus Lepius, sailing from Mozambique, were cast on a desert island where they perished of starvation.
1567
It is supposed that on this day St. Stanislaus left Vienna for Rome, where he arrived on Oct. 25.
1626
At Bracciano died Cardinal Alexander Orsini, Duke of Bracciano. He took the vows of the Society, lived like one of Ours, and had his name printed in the Catalog of the Roman Province. He wished his heart to be buried in the Gesu near the tomb of Cardinal Bellarmine.
1872
Jesuits were expelled from Germany during Bismarck's Kulturkampf.
2024
The death of Fr Gerald ('Gerry') O’Collins SJ AC (ASL) in Melbourne at the age of 93. He had been a Jesuit for 74 years and a priest for 61 years. Theologian; author of over 70 books; Lecturer at the Gregorian (for 33 years) in Rome, and later for shorter periods at St Mary's University College in Twickenham, London, the Australian Catholic University, the Jesuit College of Spirituality and the University of Divinity in Melbourne.
