function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
[123] Isa 66:18-21; Ps 117:1, 2; Heb 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 1 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Bartholomew, apostle (cf. Jn. 1:48-49) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
103rd anniversary of the death of F. Andrew Jedrzejczyk (92) d. 1967 at Kabwe, Zambia.
Anniversary:
99th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Bolger (85) d. 1971 at Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Anniversary:
92nd anniversary of the death of P. Henry Widlake (68) d. 1978 at Bindura, Zimbabwe.
Birthday:
107th birthday of P. Lawrence DAKA (born this day in 1963).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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.