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| white | Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| Birthday: | 129th birthday of P. Antoni F. BARANOWSKI (born this day in 1950). |
| Birthday: | 134th birthday of P. Nigel JOHNSON (born this day in 1945). |
| Birthday: | 97th birthday of P. Albert MUGARI (born this day in 1982). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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