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March 2072

31 Thursday
  violetThursday 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.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:100th birthday of P. Dominic TOMUSENI (born this day in 1972).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1528Claude 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.
1540St. Francis Xavier, who left Rome for India on March 15th, visited on his way the Holy House of Loretto, and there said Mass.
1606Frances 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.
1767The Society is suppressed in Spain by the Bourbons.
1922WWL, Louisiana radio station opens, at Loyola University 1934. Jesuit Cardinal Francis Ehrle dies Theologian, historian; he reorganized the Vatican Library.
1986Society of Jesus is officially allowed to return into Haiti. Jesuits had been expelled on February 12, 1964.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2072

Dominical Letter  c b
Golden Number  2
Epact  x
Solar Cycle 9
Letter of the Martyrology k
Roman Year of Indiction 5
Julian Period Year 6785
Years since the confirmation of the Society 532
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  516
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 51
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 10 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    10 April