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| white | The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
After Night Prayer, Ave Regina Caelorum is recommended. | Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | | | Cycle II | [425] 2 Thess 1:1-5, 11-12; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5; Matt 23:13-22. | | Hours of the Memorial.
Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Readings from the Common of Saints: [627] Isa 9:1-6 (#707.8); Ps 113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 (#709.4); Luke 1:26-38 (#712.4). | |
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| Anniversary: | 78th anniversary of the death of P. José Bernardo Gonçalves (72) d. 1966 at Lisbon, Portugal.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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