[235] Mic 7:14-15, 18-20;Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Alexander of Alexandria, Bishop
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Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
139th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Hobart (67) d. 1945 at Sheffield, England.
Anniversary:
82nd anniversary of the death of P. Felix Kalebwe (65) d. 2002 at Lusaka, Zambia.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1611
At Ferrara died Father Anthony Possevino, employed by Gregory XIII on many important embassies to Sweden, Russia, Poland and Germany. Colleges and seminaries were opened by him at Cracow, Olmutz, Prague, Braunsberg, and Vilna. With all his labors he found time to write 24 books on history, sculpture and science.
1878
At Rome died Father Angelo Secchi, one of the leading modern astronomers. He is honored with a bust in the Concellaria and on the Pincio. He taught physics at Georgetown and made the first general spectral classification of the stars at the Vatican Observatory. Inventor of the Secchi disk, to measure water transparency.
1932
Hartman Grisar dies at Innsbruck. He was a Reformation historian and a Lutheran scholar.
1984
James Finnegan, S.J. New York Province, is killed in Beirut, Lebanon by stray shell fire.
