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| red | Sts Simon and Jude, apostles | Mass of the feast; Gloria, preface of the feast. | | | Yr C | [666] Eph 2:19-22; Ps 19:2-3, 4-5; Lk 6:12-16. | | | Hours of the feast; Te Deum. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Simon and Jude, apostles (cf. Acts 1:13-14a, Jn. 14:22-23) [from the Roman Martyrology]. | |
| Anniversary: | 127th anniversary of the death of P. Walter Bridge (66) d. 1901 at Boscombe, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 95th anniversary of the death of F. António Augusto Pinheiro (64) d. 1933 at Macau, Hong Kong. |
| Anniversary: | 48th anniversary of the death of P. Brian Sharkey (63) d. 1980 at Lusaka, Zambia. |
| Anniversary: | 42nd anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Kearns (HIB) (74) d. 1986 at Dublin, Ireland. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1510 | St. Francis Borgia is born. |
| 1550 | St. Stanislaus Kostka born on this day and he also received the habit on this day in Rome in 1567. He would die nine months later. |
| 1552 | At Rome, the opening of the German College. |
| 1584 | Pope Gregory XIII dedicates the Roman College. He is received by Fr. General Acquaviva and the professors, including Bellarmine, Suarez, and Clavius. |
| 1939 | President F.D. Roosevelt visits Fordham University. |
| 1940 | Joseph J. Williams, S.J. dies New England Province, from the Jamaica mission; author, ethnologist, Hebrewisms of West Africa. |
| 1949 | Leonard Feeney is dismissed from the Society of Jesus. |
| 1956 | In La Vega, Dominican Republic, the inauguration of Radio Santa María, a station founded by the Jesuits to provide popular or basic education throughout that country. |
| 1958 | Wilfrid Parsons, S.J. dies. Founder of Thought magazine and editor of America, 1925-36. He was then Professor at Georgetown University and Catholic University, age 71. |
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