function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
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Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[253] Dan 3:14-20, 91-92, 95;Dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; John 8:31-42.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
79th anniversary of the death of P. Victor Boehme (74) d. 1944 at Tremeirchion, N Wales.
Anniversary:
37th anniversary of the death of P. Donald Ziemba (48) d. 1986 at Chicago, USA.
Anniversary:
30th anniversary of the death of P. Domingos Isac Mlaúzi (64) d. 1993 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Anniversary:
25th anniversary of the death of P. José Maria Marques (68) d. 1998 at Paris, France.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. Cornelius O'Donovan (82) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1549
First 6 Jesuits arrive in the Americas at Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, led by Manuel de Nobrega.
1848
Fr. General Roothaan flees from Rome in disguise, with a false passport. He will spend two years away from Rome.
1880
Decree in France orders the dissolution and dispersal of Jesuits within three months.
1932
First talkie movie shown at Woodstock College, "Song of My Heart", with John McCormack.
1988
P. Jean de Boisseson, S.J. is killed in Madagascar.
2018
Union of present province of French Canada and present province of English Canada in the Province of Canada