Hours of the Solemnity. Te Deum.Week 3 of the Psalter.
Anniversary:
88th anniversary of the death of P. Xolile Keteyi (41) d. 1994 at Pietermaritzburg, RSA.
Anniversary:
76th anniversary of the death of P. Claudio Rossi (61) d. 2006 at Palestrina, Italy.
Birthday:
102nd birthday of P. Nicholas HAMAKALU (born this day in 1980).
Birthday:
130th birthday of P. Stephen BUCKLAND (born this day in 1952).
SJ NOTE:
Monthly Mass for the needs of the Church and the Society should be offered on May 31.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1653
Publication of the bull of Pope Innocent X declaring that Five Heretical Propositions were really contained in Jansenius' Augustinus. The Jansenists retaliated by violent calumnies against the Society.
1823
Twelve Belgian Jesuits, including Fr. Van Quickenborne, superior, Peter De Smet, and Peter Verhaegen arrive in the St. Louis area by flatboat down the Ohio River and then a 120 mile walk across Illinois. They celebrate the feast of Corpus Christ the next day at the Cathedral. The mission begins.
1900
The new novitiate of the Buffalo Mission, St. Stanislaus in South Brooklyn, Ohio, near Cleveland, is blessed.
1992
The canonization of Claude de la Colombiere by Pope John Paul II, 63 years after he was beatified by Pius XI.
