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3 Wednesday
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Wednesday of the eighteenth week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II
[409] Jer 31:1-7;Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13; Matt 15:21-28.
Hours of the day.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Gamaliel (cf. Acts 5:38–39) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Lydia (cf. Acts 16:14) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
107th anniversary of the death of P. Ferdinand Engels (68) d. 1915 at Chishawasha, BSA Co..
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of P. William Broderick (64) d. 2005 at London, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1553
Queen Mary Tudor made her solemn entrance into London. As she passed St. Paul’s School, an address was delivered by Edmund Campion, then a boy of Thirteen Close by the Queen rode Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, destined to be welcomed to Oxford at a later time by Campion, selected from the students as orator.
1586
At London the arrest of Fr. William Weston and his imprisonment in the Clink.
1645
The death of Ven. Brian Cansï¬eld, missionary to England for 25 years. He was arrested while celebrating Mass, and suffered such a beating in prison that he died a few days after he was released.
1772
In Rome Ours are driven from the Irish College, and falsely accused of maladministration. An attack is made on the novitiate of S. Andrea and the German College.
