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October 2066

23 Saturday
  greenSaturday of the twenty-ninth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [478] Eph 4:7-16; Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; Luke 13:1-9.
 Hours of the day.
  whiteSt John of Capistrano, priest
Common of Pastors: For Missionaries
Readings from the Common of Saints: [664] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 16:1b-2a+5, 7-8, 11 (#721.1); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19).
Optional
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
Anniversary:132nd anniversary of the death of P. Edmund Collingridge (49) d. 1934 at Sinoia, S Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:108th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Shackles (59) d. 1958 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:65th anniversary of the death of P. LuĂ­s AbĂ­lio Goncalves (63) d. 2001 at Lisbon, Portugal. Read Obituary
Anniversary:59th anniversary of the death of F. Hugo Keller (92) d. 2007 at Pickering, ON, Canada. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1532Robert Bellarmine is born. in Montepulciano, in Tuscany, Italy. 1549. Jay, Salmeron, and Canisius are the first three Jesuits to receive their doctorates in theology. This followed an examination on October 2nd at Bologna by a board of three Dominicans. The men had been assigned to Ingolstadt, but needed doctoral degrees for that assignment.
1550Borgia arrives in Rome with retinue of 20-25, from Gandia. 1767. At Santiago, Chile, the members of the Society, kept prisoners in the College since August 26th, were led forth to exile. In all 360 Jesuits of the Chile Province were shipped to Europe as exiles.
1767In Spain an unusual decree was issued by the royal council forbidding prophecies about the return of the Society to Spain.
1926Fr. Felipe Millan, S.J. called the Damien of Cullion leper colony in the Philippines, died. He had also been a Master of Novices.
1933Maurice de la Taille, S.J. dies in Paris. He taught theology at the Gregorian and wrote Mysterium Fidei.
1944A NY Times story reports in a dispatch from Stockholm that all clergy are to be included in the draft except Jesuits, who are "declared unfit to bear arms for Germany."
1958Raoul Plus, S.J. dies spiritual writer.
1988Joseph McBride, S.J. dies promoter of canonization of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2066

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  15
Epact  iii
Solar Cycle 3
Letter of the Martyrology c
Roman Year of Indiction 14
Julian Period Year 6779
Years since the confirmation of the Society 526
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  510
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 45
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 11 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    18 April