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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56th World Communications Sunday (est. 1967)
Mass of the Vigil or of the Solemnity, Gloria, Creed, Preface of Ascension I - II Special Communicantes in Eucharistic Prayer I.
40th birthday of P. Shepherd MUHAMBA (born this day in 1982).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
St. Ursula Ledochowska, Foundress of missionary sisters, sister of Jesuit General and Blessed Teresa Ledochowska. Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.
1566
Father Pedro Martinez and two companions set sail for Florida, a region occupied at the time by barbarous tribes. (FB)
1760
The bankrupt creditors of Fr. Antoine Lavalette, superior of the Martinique mission, press the Society to repay his unauthorized trading debts, an occasion helping to lead to the banning of the Society in France.
1815
The restoration of the Society in Spain was proclaimed by royal decree.
1991
John Paul II announces that Paulo Dezza, S.J. is to become a Cardinal, as well as Jan Korec, in Slovakia. There are now seven Jesuit Cardinals, the largest number ever.