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| red | St Bartholomew, apostle | Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. | | | Yr C | [629] Rev 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 17-18; John 1:45-51. | | | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Bartholomew, apostle (cf. Jn. 1:48-49) [from the Roman Martyrology]. | |
| Anniversary: | 55th anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Jedrzejczyk (92) d. 1967 at Kabwe, Zambia.  |
| Anniversary: | 51st anniversary of the death of P. Charles Bolger (85) d. 1971 at Tremeirchion, N Wales. |
| Anniversary: | 44th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Widlake (68) d. 1978 at Bindura, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 59th birthday of P. Lawrence DAKA (born this day in 1963). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1572 | Bartholomew Day Massacre, in which Hugenots are killed. "Protestant and infidel historians alike agree that the Society had no part in this bloody deed..." |
| 1734 | Brief of Clement XII hinders inculturation efforts in India. 1750. Bonaventure Suarez, S.J. dies in Mexico, astronomer, and the first scientist of the Americas. |
| 1809 | Lorenzo Hervas y Panduro, S.J. dies. He was a missionary to America, a philologist, ethnologist, and writer, author of "The Idea of the Universe." |
| 1905 | Hans Urs von Balthasar, is born. |
| 1918 | Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. B American theologian. |
| 1936 | The death of S.G. Andrew Carrió, martyr of the Spanish Civil War who remained in Spain ministering to people after the Society was suppressed. |
| 1951 | Jan Korec is consecrated clandestine bishop in a locked, dark room in a Czechoslovakian prison, at age 27. |
| 1977 | Opening of the seventh Congress of Jesuit Ecumenists at Frankfurt, with over 100 Jesuits. |
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