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| violet | Tuesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [258] Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5-6ab, 15+17; John 13:21-33, 36-38. |
| Hours of the day |
| Anniversary: | 99th anniversary of the death of F. Alfred Batt (81) d. 1952 at St Beuno's, Tremeirchion, N Wales.  |
| Birthday: | 108th 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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