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Friday in the Fourth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle II
[283] Acts 13:26-33;Ps 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11ab; John 14:1-6.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:
74th birthday of P. Antoni F. BARANOWSKI (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:
79th birthday of P. Nigel JOHNSON (born this day in 1945).
Birthday:
42nd birthday of P. Albert MUGARI (born this day in 1982).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1541
St. Francis Xavier, on this day, his 35th birthday, embarks from Lisbon for India, for a 13 month journey to Goa.
1648
At Madrid, the death of Fr. John de Ripalda, an eminent theologian who held the chair of theology as Salamanca.
1849
In Rome, revolutionaries searched for hidden Jesuits at Villa Macao, the country house near Porta Pia, where long before St. Aloysius and St. John Berchmans had come with the other Jesuit scholastics for weekly recreation.
1911
Manresa Retreat House property bought, Staten Island. Fox Hill villa. A retreat house exclusively for laymen. Under Fr. Shealy, the first retreat was given on September 8th.
1921
Saint Louis University’s radio station, WEW (We Enlighten the World) went on the air. It was only the second ratio station in the US.
1935
Lumen Vitae, a center for catechetics and religious formation is founded in Brussels.
1941
Joseph Stadelman, S.J. dies, founder of Xavier Society for the Blind.
1995
Louis Schillebeckyx, S.J. dies, a missionary in India, and the brother of Dominican theologian, Edward. He was age 87 and had been Provincial.
