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| violet | Thursday in the Fifth Week of Lent |
| Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I |
| | [254] Gen 17:3-9;
Ps 105:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; John 8:51-59.
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| Anniversary: | 10th anniversary of the death of P. Wolfgang Thamm (SAP) (91) d. 2024 at Harare, Zimbabwe.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1823 | The Holy See empowers Georgetown University to confer ecclesiastical degrees in philosophy and theology. |
| 1848 | At Rome the fathers and scholastics of the Roman College, the Gesu, S. Andrea, and S. Eusebio, were dispersed by the Revolution. |
| 1934 | The Pontifical College, Pio-Brazil, is founded in Rome and entrusted to the Society. |
| 1984 | Karl Rahner, S.J. dies theologian, age 80. |
| 2005 | John O’Donnell, S.J. dies age 60. Theologian, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Gregorian University. |
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