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| red | STS PETER AND PAUL, apostles | Mass of the solemnity; gloria, creed, preface of the solemnity. | | Cycle I | Vigil Mass: [590] (Vigil Mass) Acts 3:1-10; Ps 19:2-3, 4-5; Gal 1:11-20; John 21:15-19. | | Cycle I | Mass during the day: [591] (Mass during the Day) Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 2 Tim 4:6-8, 17-18; Matt 16:13-19. | | | Hours of the Solemnity; Te Deum. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles (cf. Mt. 16:18-19) [from the Roman Martyrology]. | |
| Anniversary: | 133rd anniversary of the death of P. William Brand (65) d. 1940 at Edinburgh, Scotland.  |
| Anniversary: | 111th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Widdowson (70) d. 1962 at Roehampton, England. |
| Anniversary: | 99th anniversary of the death of P. Leslie Piper (69) d. 1974 at Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| Birthday: | 71st birthday of NS. Kudzai SUSHA (born this day in 2002). |
| Jubilee: | Wine Jubilee of P. Peter BWANALI who celebrates 85 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Diamond Jubilee of S. Herbert Nharo SHOKO who celebrates 60 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Diamond Jubilee of S. John K. SAUTI who celebrates 60 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Diamond Jubilee of P. Lodewicus BARNARD who celebrates 60 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Diamond Jubilee of P. Tinashe KUNZE who celebrates 60 years in the Society today. |
| Jubilee: | Diamond Jubilee of P. Kelvin MUNKULI who celebrates 60 years in the Society today. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1537 | St. Ignatius and Companions are ordained sub-deacons in Venice. 1542. Peter Faber begins writing his Memoriale. |
| 1546 | Paul III by his Brief, Exponi nobis, empowers the Society to admit Coadjutors, both spiritual and temporal, thus admit brothers. |
| 1553 | At Louvain, certain parish priests urged the faithful not to confess to Jesuits. This was condemned by the theological faculty. |
| 1853 | Pius IX, by his Bull Romani Pontifices makes over the Palazzo Borromeo (Via del Seminario 120), to the German College. |
| 1888 | F.X. Weninger, S.J. dies at Cincinnati. Missionary, preacher. |
| 1909 | Fr. General Wernz calls on the whole Society to assist the mission to Japan. |
| 1909 | St. Pius X entrusted the Pontifical Biblical Institute to the Society. |
| 1930 | The North America Martyrs, and Robert Bellarmine, are canonized by Pius XI. |
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