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July 2079

28 Friday
  greenFriday of the sixteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [399] Exod 20:1-17; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11; Matt 13:18-23.
 Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
   redSt Victor I, Pope and MartyrOptional 
Common of Martyrs
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Nicholas, deacons (cf. Acts 6:3-5) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:78th anniversary of the death of F. Emmanuel Tirivanhu (60) d. 2001 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Birthday:138th birthday of P. Paul EDWARDS (born this day in 1941).
Birthday:74th birthday of NS. Wiseborn KANYAMBUJO (born this day in 2005).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1568In a letter to Fr. Christopher Rodriguez, St. Teresa speaking of the Society says: "Homines Societatis Jesus sunt mei patres, quibus post Deum debet anima mea bonum omne si quid habet." (The men of the Society of Jesus are my fathers, to whom, after God, my soul owes all its good, if it has any.)
1844Gerard Manley Hopkins is born.
1868Theodor Wulf, S.J. is born. physics, invented electrometers for classroom use. He was also provincial.
1937Fr. William Banks Rogers died. During his eight years as president of Saint Louis University, he arranged for the purchase of a college of medicine which became the University’s medical school. He is called the university’s "Second Founder."

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2079

Dominical Letter  A
Golden Number  9
Epact  xxvii
Solar Cycle 16
Letter of the Martyrology H
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6792
Years since the confirmation of the Society 539
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  523
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 58
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 23 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    23 April