function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
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115th World Day of Migrants and Refugees (est. 1914)
Mass of the Sunday; gloria, creed.
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[136] Ezek 18:25-28; Ps 125:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Phil 2:1-11 or 2:1-5; Matt 21:28-32.
Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum. Week 2 of the Psalter.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Rachel, matriarch (cf. Gn. 30:22–24) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
80th anniversary of the death of F. Oswald Taylor (62) d. 1949 at Virginia Water, Surrey, England.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1567
Paris was saved from fire and destruction by Father Oliver Manare, who warned the magistrates of the Huguenot plots.
1572
The death of St. Francis Borgia, the Duke of Gandia and the viceroy of Catalonia before becoming a Jesuit. He became the third General, and oversaw the establishment of many schools and the expansion of missionary work.
1572
The death of St. Francis Borgia, the Duke of Gandia and viceroy of Catalonia before becoming a Jesuit. He became the third superior general of the Society and oversaw the establishment of many schools and the expansion of missionary work.
1759
At Coimbra, the Fathers of the College were arrested, taken to Lisbon, and sentence to banishment. On January 4th they landed at Civita Vecchia.
1911
President William Howard Taft visits St. Louis University and declares the football season open, amid alia.
1928
Motu Proprio of Pius XI, Quod Maxime, associates the Biblical and Oriental Institutes with the Gregorian University.