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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 |
| Anniversary: | 66th anniversary of the death of F. John Mulligan (88) d. 1993 at Edinburgh, Scotland.  |
| Anniversary: | 57th anniversary of the death of P. Francis McKeown (88) d. 2002 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 69th birthday of P. AlcĂdio Vitorino TEMBE (born this day in 1990). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1541 | Ignatius and Codure begin writing the Constitutions. |
| 1548 | Canisius leaves Rome to found a college in Sicily. |
| 1553 | St. Ignatius' golden letter on Obedience is sent to the Fathers and Brothers of Portugal. |
| 1693 | An instruction of Msgr. Charles Maigrot is negative on inculturation in China and reverses the earlier decision which allowed participation in Chinese funeral rites. |
| 1900 | At Rome the death of Cardinal Camillus Mazzella, Bishop of the suburban see of Palestrina. His last words to Father General were: "Laetor quod in Societate morior." He was the first Dean of Woodstock College, 1869-75. He opposed the liberal elements in the American and European churches. |
| 1988 | Paul Kennedy, S.J. dies Tertian Instructor at St. Beino, 1958-74. A man of remarkable spiritual insight. He once said "We are all fakes." |
| 1995 | Michael Lavelle, S.J. dies. An economist, he had been President of John Carroll University and Provincial of Detroit. |
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