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| red | St Stephen, first martyr | Feast |
| Mass of the feast; Gloria.
Christmas Preface I - III
Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Morning hours of the feast; Te Deum; Evening Prayer of Octave of Christmas. | |
| | [696] Acts 6:8-10; 7:54-59; Ps 31:3cd-4, 6ab+8ab, 16bc+17; Matt 10:17-22. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Stephen, proto-martyr (cf. Acts 7:59-60) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 79th anniversary of the death of P. Gerhard Pieper (38) d. 1978 at Kangaira, Zimbabwe.  |
| Anniversary: | 65th anniversary of the death of P. Arnaldo de Lacerda (68) d. 1992 at Lisbon, Portugal. |
| Anniversary: | 42nd anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Sequeira (87) d. 2015 at Lisbon, Portugal. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1569 | (Dec. 25 or 26) Thomas Pounde, of Belmont, dancing before Queen Elizabeth, fell and was jeered at by her Majesty, which led to his conversion. |
| 1637 | Cardinal Richelieu, the French Prime Minister, banished the Jesuit Nicolás Caussin, confessor of Louis XIII, who had incurred the wrath of the omnipotent minister for giving the king scruples about thecrueltreatment and isolation of the queen mother, his treatment of his wife, and excessive taxation. |
| 1649 | At Ratisbon Mark Grandl, a German lay-brother, died immediately after making a general confession of his whole life. He had made his own coffin and kept it in his room. |
| 1856 | The death in Rome of Gilles Henry, a missionary in the Caucasas and Greek archipelago. |
| 1978 | Fr. Gerhard Pieper, S.J., librarian, aged 38, is shot to death in Zimbabwe. |
| 1979 | John Reed, S.J. dies, a member of the NY Province, a canon lawyer and teacher of canon law. |
| 2014 | Joseph Pittau, SJ, dies, age 86. Archbishop. Was Assistant to Fr. Dezza from 1981-83. |
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