[124] Jer 20:7-9; Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9; Rom 12:1-2; Matt 16:21-27.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist (cf. Mt. 14:1–12, Mk. 6:14–29, Lk. 9:7–9) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
45th anniversary of the death of F. Francisco Lopes (91) d. 1993 at Cernache, Portugal.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1695
The fifth translation of the body of St. Ignatius in the Church of the Gesu in Rome. While his final place is being designed and built by Br. Pozzo, Ignatius is placed under the high altar for a period of four years.
1799
At Valence in France, the death in exile of Pope Pius VI, vicim of Napoleon’s cruelty. With him was Father Merotti, S.J. his confessor whom the Pope on leaving Rome had asked him to accompany him to Calvary.
1876
Juan Perrone dies, a theologian important in the definition of the Immaculate Conception, he taught in Rome.
