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| white | St Monica | Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | | | Cycle I | [427] 1 Thess 2:9-13; Ps 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12ab; Matt 23:27-32. | | Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Holy Men and Women
Readings from the Common of Saints: [632] Sir 26:1-4, 13-16 (#737.14); Ps 131:1bcde, 2, 3 (#739.9); Luke 7:11-17. | |
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| Anniversary: | 122nd anniversary of the death of P. Maurice Dowling (HIB) (69) d. 1965 at Lusaka, Zambia.  |
| Anniversary: | 94th anniversary of the death of P. Geoffrey Cockroft (72) d. 1993 at Macheke, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 150th birthday of F. Günter GATTUNG (born this day in 1937). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1541 | Jean Codure, first of the founders to die, at Rome.This was four months after his final vows at St. Paul’s. Hewas the first Jesuit to be sent on mission outside of Italy. In Rome, on this day, Ignatius sensed this, stopped, and told his companions of the death. |
| 1590 | Pope Sixtus V dies suddenly, shortly after he had desired to change the name of the Society of Jesus. |
| 1605 | Ricci builds a house and establishes a novitiate in Peking. |
| 1679 | David Lewis, S.J. dies Saint and Martyr, dies forgiving his enemies and persecutors. He was an apostle to the poor in his native Wales for three decades before he was caught and hanged. |
| 1917 | House of formation opens in Yonkers for the New York and Maryland Provinces. |
| 1991 | In Bogotá, Colombia, the first meeting for those in charge of pastoral work in the Latin American universities of the Society of Jesus. |
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