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| violet | Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25. |
| Hours of the day |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Dismas, the good thief (cf. Lk. 23:41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Annunciation to Mary (cf. Lk. 1:26-38) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Isaac, patriarch (cf. Gn. 15-35) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 162nd anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Glesinsky (33) d. 1892 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.  |
| Anniversary: | 159th anniversary of the death of M. Amandus Leroeye (28) d. 1895 at Bombay, India. |
| Anniversary: | 122nd anniversary of the death of P. Peter Molloy (58) d. 1932 at Preston, Lancs, England. |
| Anniversary: | 103rd anniversary of the death of F. Ignatius Matzke (81) d. 1951 at Grahamstown, RSA. |
| 33rd Anniversary of the erection of the Southern Africa Province. | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1524 | Paschase Broet, one of the first ten companions of Ignatius, is ordained a priest long before he met St. Ignatius. |
| 1538 | Diego Hozes, S.J. dies. The first Jesuit to die. (even if the Society was not yet officially approved). He was a Spanish priest who died in Padua. |
| 1563 | The First Sodality of Our Lady of Fatima Prima Primaria was started at the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis. |
| 1563 | The first Sodality of Our Lady, Prima Primaria, was begun in the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit named John Leunis (Leonius). |
| 1586 | St. Margaret Clitheroe dies on this day, pressed to death. New RM. She protected some Jesuit Fathers. |
| 1634 | Andrew White, S.J. arrives in Maryland. Mass said on St. Clement Isle, River Potomac, not far from St. Inigo's. This is the beginning of Catholicism in English speaking America). |
| 1847 | Virgil Barber, S.J. dies. A convert to Catholicism, his wife and five children become religious, one of them a Jesuit. |
| 1904 | Francis Xavier is chosen by Pius X as the patron of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. |
| 1920 | Instruction/Letter of Father General Ledochowski on the use of the telephone. No general permission is given to scholastics to use the phone, and no phones in private rooms. |
| 1962 | Fr. Felice Cappello dies, known as "the Confessor of Rome", for hearing confessions at St. Ignatius Church. |
| 1968 | Paul VI approve new statutes for Sodalities, now CLC. |
| 1980 | Paul Dent, one of the first Missouri Province Jesuits who went to India in the 1920's, dies. |
| 2021 | Erection of the Southern Africa Province. |
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