[318] 2 Sam 6:12b-15, 17-19;Ps 24:7, 8, 9, 10; Mark 3:31-35,
Hours of the day.
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Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Betrothal of Mary and Joseph (cf. Mt. 1:18–25, Lk. 1:26–27; 2:5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
127th anniversary of the death of P. Ferdinand Brault (59) d. 1919 at Tours, France.
Anniversary:
90th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Verdin (92) d. 1956 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
73rd anniversary of the death of P. Henry Swift (73) d. 1973 at Salisbury, Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of F. Benedict Fostacz (69) d. 1977 at Zagreb, Croatia.
Anniversary:
31st anniversary of the death of F. James Paul (89) d. 2015 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
51st birthday of S. Thomas Mwaba CHILINGA (born this day in 1995).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1540
The birth of St. Edmund Campion.
1585
Mary Ward is born. She founded the Institute of Mary, or the English Ladies, an institute of apostolic women, also called the Jesuitesses, which was later suppressed, and she was imprisoned. This is the date in the Old Style Calendar.
1656
Pascal published his first Provincial Letter against the Society of Jesus.
1656
The publication of Pascal's First Provincial Letter against the Society. Others followed at intervals until March 27, 1657. In 1658 they were condemned at Rome, and on October l0, 1660 publicly burnt by the French King's order.
1789
John Carroll gains the deed of land for the site and origin of Georgetown University.
1871
Famous missionary Peter deSmet visits Woodstock College for a few days.
1876
Blessed Rupert Mayer, S.J. is born.
1893
Frederic Faura Brat, S.J. dies. An astronomer, he was the founder of the Manila Observatory, and an inventor of an aneroid barometer.
1909
The death of William Pardow, S.J., Preacher and Provincial (1893-97). He established the first mission of the US Jesuits in Jamaica.
1932
Decree in Spain dissolves the Society of Jesus in Spain. It is reversed by Franco six years later.
1971
Dan Berrigan and his brother Phil Berrigan make the cover of Time Magazine.
