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| white | Friday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [265] Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2+4, 22-24, 25-27a; John 21:1-14. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Tychicus, disciple of Paul (cf. Col. 4:7-8) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 212th anniversary of the death of F. Louis de Vylder (42) d. 1883 at Lusu Rapids, Zambia.  |
| Anniversary: | 181st anniversary of the death of P. Alexandre Furtado Mendonça (56) d. 1914 at Red Sea. |
| Anniversary: | 97th anniversary of the death of E. Paul Lungu (51) d. 1998 at Magoye, Zambia. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1568 | St. Pius V, by his Brief "Innumerabile fructus," confirms the Consitutions of Paul II and Julius III regarding the government of colleges, the appointment of rectors by the General, etc. |
| 1568 | St. Pius V, by his Brief "Innumerabiles fructus," conï¬rms the Constitutions of Paul II and Julius III regarding the government of colleges, the appointment of rectors by the General, etc. |
| 1578 | Disturbances at Utrecht caused by Lutherans: the Fathers were driven from their College. |
| 1599 | At Nankin, Father Matthew Ricci secured a fixed abode, purchasing a house reported to be haunted. |
| 1672 | At Rome the solemn canonization of St. Francis Borgia by Clement X. 1894. The Sodality of St. Peter Claver for African Missions is approved and blessed by Leo XIII. It was founded by Maria Teresa Ledochowska., sister of Fr. General. |
| 1903 | President Theodore Roosevelt visits St. Louis University. |
| 1933 | Thomas Ewing Sherman, S.J. dies in New Orleans. He was the son of General Sherman, an orator on the mission band. He suffered a breakdown, and wanted to leave the Society, but was refused because of his ill health. Before his death he renewed his vows in the Society. |
| 1936 | Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, S.J. born, Spain. |
| 1998 | The Bishop of Monze, Paul Lungu, S.J., 51, died in a road accident. For his funeral, all ten Zambian Bishops and the Nuncio were present at the ceremony which lasted for four hours and which was attended by an estimated gathering of 10,000 people. The ritual dances and mournful singing performed during the Mass are the traditional honors given to a chief among the Tonga people. |
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