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February 2095

26 Saturday
 greenSaturday of the seventh week in Ordinary Time.
 Mass ad lib.
Cycle I [346] Sir 17:1-15; Ps 103:13-14, 15-16, 17-18; Mark 10:13-16.
 Hours of the day.
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   whiteSt Alexander of Alexandria, BishopOptional 
Common of Pastors
Anniversary:150th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Hobart (67) d. 1945 at Sheffield, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:93rd anniversary of the death of P. Felix Kalebwe (65) d. 2002 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1611At 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.
1878At 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.
1932Hartman Grisar dies at Innsbruck. He was a Reformation historian and a Lutheran scholar.
1984James Finnegan, S.J. New York Province, is killed in Beirut, Lebanon by stray shell fire.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2095

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  6
Epact  xxiv
Solar Cycle 4
Letter of the Martyrology E
Roman Year of Indiction 13
Julian Period Year 6808
Years since the confirmation of the Society 555
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  539
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 74
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 24 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April