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May 2078

28 Saturday
  greenSaturday of the eighth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [352] Jude 17, 20b-25; Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6; Mark 11:27-33.
 Hours of the day.
  white   greenSaturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin MaryOptional
Anniversary:163rd anniversary of the death of P. Kenelm Digby-Beste (39) d. 1915 at Bulawayo, BSA Co.. Read Obituary
Anniversary:88th anniversary of the death of P. Maximilian Prokoph (80) d. 1990 at Johannesburg, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:56th anniversary of the death of P. Andrews Thekkekara (MDU) (90) d. 2022 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:106th birthday of P. Kapyunga Boyd Christopher NYIRENDA (born this day in 1972).
Jubilee:Granite Jubilee of P. Antoni F. BARANOWSKI who celebrates 90 years of Priesthood today.

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1537Francis Borgia converted from the vanities of the world by the sight of Empress Isabella’s corpse.
1547Letter of St. Ignatius on zeal and religious perfection.
1600Father Matthew Ricci, undismayed by the failure of his first visit to Peking, set out again from Nanking with many rich presents for the Emperor, of which he was robbed on the way.
1634Ven. Father Thomas Holland, martyr, took the vows of a Spiritual Coadjutor. He is said to have heroically swallowed a spider that fell into the chalice during Mass. He is now a saint.
1648At Murcia in Spain died Fr. Andre Salvatierra, famous mission in California. On several occasions he won a hearing for the Gospel by first playing on the lute for the native peoples.
1881Cardinal Bea, is born.
1962The death of Bernard Hubbard, S.J., in Santa Clara, California. He is the author of the book Mush, You Malemutes! and articles in the Saturday Evening Post on the Alaska mission. "The Glacier Priest" – for climbing the Austrian Alps!
1981The death of Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist. Convert to Catholicism, she wrote jazz Masses. Jesuits assisted her and one acted as her musical agent.
1987Hugh Costigan, S.J. dies. Missionary to Micronesia.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2078

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 15
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 11
Julian Period Year 6791
Years since the confirmation of the Society 538
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  522
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 57
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 3 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    8 May