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");
}
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46th anniversary of the death of P. Karl-Ferdinand Schmidt (78) d. 2007 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1611
The first Jesuit missionaries sail from Europe to New France, Canada. 1616. Close of the Seventh General Congregation. One of its enactments was to refuse support (alimenta) to members dismissed from the Society.
1758
In France the Duke de Choiseul is made Prime Minister. The Lavalette affair supplied the opportunity he sought to ruin the Society.
1975
The death of Josef Jungmann, whose studies of liturgical history contributed to the reform of the liturgy.