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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: | 79th anniversary of the death of P. Isidore Lallemand (82) d. 1945 at Cape Town, RSA.  |
| Anniversary: | 13th anniversary of the death of F. William Nash (87) d. 2011 at London, England. |
| Anniversary: | 4th anniversary of the death of P. Roland Lesseps (UCS) (87) d. 2020 at Grand Coteau, LA, USA. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1540 | Simon Rodriguez sets out for India. He is the first Jesuit missionary. 1547. Ignatius wrote a letter to Jesuits in Spain on religious perfection. |
| 1540 | Xavier, chosen in Father Nicholas Bobadilla's place left Rome for the Indies... St. Ignatius' parting words were, "Ite omnia incendite et inflammate." |
| 1548 | Fr. Anthony Corduba, rector of the College of Salamanca, begged Ignatius to admit him into the Society so as to escape the cardinalate which Charles V intended to procure for him. |
| 1587 | The death at Messina of Thomas Evans, a Jesuit who had suffered imprisonment for his defense of the Catholic faith in England. He was 28 at the time of his death. |
| 1708 | By a decree of Pope Clement XI the convent of Port Royal, a nest of Jansenism, was suppressed. |
| 1766 | A forged letter (the work of Choiseul) from Father General Ricci to the Spanish Provincial, imputing illegitimacy to King Charles III, was shown to that monarch, who at once became the Society’s implacable enemy. |
| 1840 | Among the North American Indians, Father Peter de Smet was welcomed with great joy, being the first "Blackrobe" seen among them since the Suppression. |
| 1840 | Peter de Smet set out from St. Louis on his first trip to the Rocky Mountains at the invitation of a delegation from the Salishan people in what is now Montana. This exploratory trip resulted in starting amission to the Indians a year later. |
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