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April 2091

26 Thursday
  whiteThursday in the Third Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I [276] Acts 8:26-40; Ps 66:8-9, 16-17, 20; John 6:44-51.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:141st birthday of P. Antoni F. BARANOWSKI (born this day in 1950).
Birthday:146th birthday of P. Nigel JOHNSON (born this day in 1945).
Birthday:109th 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 2091

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  2
Epact  x
Solar Cycle 28
Letter of the Martyrology k
Roman Year of Indiction 9
Julian Period Year 6804
Years since the confirmation of the Society 551
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  535
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 70
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 8 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 April