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April 2087

26 Saturday
  whiteSaturday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [266] Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1+14-15ab, 16-18, 19-21; Mark 16:9-15.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Birthday:137th birthday of P. Antoni F. BARANOWSKI (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:142nd birthday of P. Nigel JOHNSON (born this day in 1945).
Birthday:105th birthday of P. Albert MUGARI (born this day in 1982).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1541St. Francis Xavier, on this day, his 35th birthday, embarks from Lisbon for India, for a 13 month journey to Goa.
1648At Madrid, the death of Fr. John de Ripalda, an eminent theologian who held the chair of theology as Salamanca.
1849In 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.
1911Manresa 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.
1921Saint Louis University’s radio station, WEW (We Enlighten the World) went on the air. It was only the second ratio station in the US.
1935Lumen Vitae, a center for catechetics and religious formation is founded in Brussels.
1941Joseph Stadelman, S.J. dies, founder of Xavier Society for the Blind.
1995Louis Schillebeckyx, S.J. dies, a missionary in India, and the brother of Dominican theologian, Edward. He was age 87 and had been Provincial.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2087

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  17
Epact  25
Solar Cycle 24
Letter of the Martyrology F
Roman Year of Indiction 5
Julian Period Year 6800
Years since the confirmation of the Society 547
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  531
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 66
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 20 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    27 April