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| white | Tuesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [262] Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22; John 20:11-18. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| Anniversary: | 88th anniversary of the death of P. Wilfred Hopkins (68) d. 1941 at Old Windsor, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 31st anniversary of the death of P. Gerald McEnhill (73) d. 1998 at Rothwell Farm, Kutama, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 49th birthday of F. Ngonidzashe EDWARD (born this day in 1980). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1583 | Jerome Nadal, S.J. dies who had been a student at Paris with Ignatius and Xavier. He died on Easter Sunday, aged 73 in the novitiate of San Andrea, Rome. He promulgated the Constitutions throughout Europe. |
| 1622 | Solemn profession of Peter Claver, in Cartagena, age 42. Petrus Claver, ethiopum semper servus. |
| 1767 | Fr. Joseph Pignatelli was expelled from Spain along with all other Jesuits there and at age 30 began his career of holding together a suppressed Society. At age 57, he once again saw the Society permitted to accept novices but he did not live to see its Restoration in 1814. |
| 1767 | St. Joseph Pignatelli was expelled from Spain along with all other Jesuits there. He began his career of holding together the suppressed Society at age 30, and once again saw the Society permitted to acceptnovices when he was 57 years old, but he did not live to see its restoration in 1814. |
| 1876 | Johann Cardinal Franzelin, S.J. created a cardinal on this day. He was a theologian of Vatican I, linguist, professor of Scripture and dogma. |
| 1960 | The death of Fr. Edward P. Dowling, friend of Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. |
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