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| red | The Holy Innocents, martyrs | Feast |
| Mass of the feast; Gloria.
Christmas Preface I - III
Special Communicantes in Roman Canon.
Morning hours of the feast; Te Deum; Evening Prayer of Octave of Christmas. | |
| | [698] 1 John 1:5-2:2; Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7cd-8; Matt 2:13-18. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture all the Innocent children of Bethlehem (cf. Mt. 2:16) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 85th anniversary of the death of P. Charles Bick (78) d. 1939 at Holy Cross, S. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 52nd anniversary of the death of F. Charles McCann (69) d. 1972 at Lanark, Scotland. |
| Anniversary: | 49th anniversary of the death of P. William Smulders (44) d. 1975 at Beatrice, Republic of Rhodesia. |
| Anniversary: | 16th anniversary of the death of F. JoseÌ de Carvalho Lima (82) d. 2008 at Coimbra, Portugal. |
| Anniversary: | 12th anniversary of the death of P. JosĂ© LuĂs de Gonzaga Neto (82) d. 2012 at Cernache, Portugal. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| HOLY INNOCENTS, MARTYRS, Feast. Special feast for Jesuit Novices. 1622. Frances de Sales dies. |
| 1540 | In Rome Peter Ribadeneira, aged fourteen, began his noviceship, after making the Spiritual Exercises. |
| 1663 | The death of Fr. Francis Maria Grimaldi. He was a noted astronomer who did research on the refraction of light. Isaac Newton made use of his work. |
| 1802 | Pope Pius VII allowed Father General Gabriel Gruber to afïŹliate the English Jesuits to the Society of Jesus in Russia. |
| 1802 | Pope Pius VII allows Fr. General Gruber to affiliate the English Jesuits to the Society of Jesus in Russia. |
| 1832 | St. Louis University receives its charter. It is the first Catholic University west of the Allegheny Mountains. Peter Verhaegen is appointed as the first President. |
| 1953 | The Society recalls its worker priests in France. |
| 1967 | Servant of God, Egide Van Broeckhoven, S.J. a priest worker, is killed in an accident at the factory where he worked. |
| 1983 | Fr. Francis Xavier Chu, S.J., dies in a work camp in China. 32 years in prison. |
| 1988 | Fr. Peter Davis, S.J. age 43 dies of AIDS, in Oregon. |
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