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Waning Gibbous
23 Thursday
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23 December.
Mass of 23 December; preface of Advent II
Cycle I
[199] Mal 3:1-4, 23-24;Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10+14; Luke 1:57-66.
Hours of 23 December
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St. John of Kanty, priest
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Birthday:
30th birthday of S. Tatolo THIBINYANE (born this day in 1991).
Birthday:
35th birthday of P. Inoque Samuel POSSE (born this day in 1986).
Birthday:
25th birthday of NS. Batsirai Cruz MAKORE (born this day in 1996).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
Letter from St. Ignatius to India. Xavier is appointed Provincial of the newly erected Province of India.
1549
St. Francis Xavier was appointed provincial of the newly-erected Indian Province.
1631
At Ghent the parish priests complain to the Bishop because the Jesuits had told those under their direction that they were not bound sub gravi to hear the Sunday Mass specifically in their parish church.
1758
Carvalho orders a strict search for arms and ammunitions at the Jesuit College in Lisbon.
1808
At Bologna, 21 Spanish ex-Jesuits living in exile were conducted to Modena and imprisoned for refusing the oath of allegiance to Joseph Bonaparte, the ursurper of the Spanish throne.
