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January 2049

31 Sunday
 greenFourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
96th World Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Day (est. 1953)
Mass of the Sunday; Gloria, Creed, Pref. of Sunday.
Yr C [72] Jer 1:4-5, 17-19; Ps 71:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 15+17; 1 Cor 12:31-13:13 or 13:4-13; Luke 4:21-30.
 Hours of the Sunday. Te Deum.
Week 4 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:155th anniversary of the death of P. EstevĂŁo (Stef) Czimmermann (43) d. 1894 at Ricico, Zumbo, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:155th anniversary of the death of P. John Temming (38) d. 1894 at Vleischfontein, RSA. Read Obituary
Birthday:83rd birthday of P. Anthony EGAN (born this day in 1966).
Birthday:52nd birthday of NF. Tadeu Carlitos Cândido ALECHEMA (born this day in 1997).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1597John Francis Regis is born in south France.
1615At Rome died Father Claudius Acquaviva, the fifth General of the Society . He was elected General when only 37 years of age, and in the l3th year of his religious life. He governed it for 34 years with consummate prudence and unflinching courage under most trying circumstances. He is the longest reigning general - for 33 years and 11 months, serving under eight Popes.
1668Herman Busembaum, S.J. dies Moral Theologian, author of Medulla Theologiae Moralis.
1683The arrival of Fr. Thomas Harvey in the colony of New York. He opened a small school near Wall St. The Jesuits had to leave five years later.
1774Father Laurence Ricci, General, prisoner in Castel S. Angelo, having claimed his liberty, since his innocence had been fully vindicated, received from the Papal Congregationthe reply that they would think about it. Pope Clement XIV was said at this time to be mentally afflicted.
1872The first issue of the Woodstock Letters appears. A.M. deAugustinis is the editor.
1985Louis Laurendeau, S.J. dies. He had been the Secretary of the Society of Jesus from l970-83.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2049

Dominical Letter  c
Golden Number  17
Epact  25
Solar Cycle 14
Letter of the Martyrology F
Roman Year of Indiction 12
Julian Period Year 6762
Years since the confirmation of the Society 509
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  493
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 28
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 18 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    25 April