| 31 Wednesday | |
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| violet | Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25. |
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| Birthday: | 111th birthday of P. Dominic TOMUSENI (born this day in 1972). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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