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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. |
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| Anniversary: | 88th anniversary of the death of F. Alfred Batt (81) d. 1952 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.  |
| Birthday: | 97th birthday of P. Ronald HIDAKA (born this day in 1943). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1541 | The First Companions gather to write the Constitutions of the Society in conformity with the Bull of Approval, "Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae," of Paul III. |
| 1848 | In Rome, Pope Pius IX, having intimated his wish that the Society should leave. the city because of the Revolution, Rev. Fr. General Roothaan and the Assistants prepared to depart. |
| 1913 | The Imperial Ministry of Education in Japan gives permission to open Sophia University. |
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