Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
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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:
128th anniversary of the death of P. Walter Bridge (66) d. 1901 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
96th anniversary of the death of F. António Augusto Pinheiro (64) d. 1933 at Macau, Hong Kong.
Anniversary:
49th anniversary of the death of P. Brian Sharkey (63) d. 1980 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
43rd anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Kearns (HIB) (74) d. 1986 at Dublin, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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.
