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31 Thursday
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Thursday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[247] Exod 32:7-14;Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23; John 5:31-47.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:
50th birthday of P. Dominic TOMUSENI (born this day in 1972).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1528
Claude Jay, S.J., one of 10 companions is ordained priest in Geneva. 1568. Eight Jesuits reach the port of Callao, Peru, sent by Francis Borgia. 1606. At the Guildhall, London, the trial of Fr. Henry Garnet, falsely accused of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot.
1540
St. Francis Xavier, who left Rome for India on March 15th, visited on his way the Holy House of Loretto, and there said Mass.
1606
Frances Martinez, S.J. dies in prison in China. He was the first Chinese admitted to the Society by Ricci, eight years after Ricci's arrival.
1767
The Society is suppressed in Spain by the Bourbons.
1922
WWL, Louisiana radio station opens, at Loyola University 1934. Jesuit Cardinal Francis Ehrle dies Theologian, historian; he reorganized the Vatican Library.
1986
Society of Jesus is officially allowed to return into Haiti. Jesuits had been expelled on February 12, 1964.
