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January 2040

4 Wednesday
 whiteWednesday before Epiphany
Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III
Cycle II [207] 1 John 3:7-10; Ps 98:1, 7-8, 9; John 1:35-42.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:119th anniversary of the death of F. Edmund Gisler (60) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:73rd anniversary of the death of P. Philip Condell (92) d. 1967 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:65th birthday of S. Maximus Muyembe CHONGO (born this day in 1975).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1572In Sicily, Michael Foglio, a Scholastic, is said to have appeared after death, and to have revealed the terrible sufferings of lax religious in Purgatory.
1619The English mission is raised to the status of a province.
1634Fr. Marcello Mastrilli, miraculously cured through prayers to Xavier the previous day, offered a public Mass of thanksgiving - the remote origin of the "Novena of Grace."
1829Publication of Pope Leo XII's Rescript, declaring the Society to be canonically restored in England.
1928Antonio Astrain, S.J. dies Jesuit historian and biographer of St. Ignatius dies at Loyola, Spain.
1952Henry Davis, S.J. dies He taught moral theology for 40 years, and wrote the 4 vol. Moral and Pastoral Theology.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2040

Dominical Letter  A g
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 5
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 3
Julian Period Year 6753
Years since the confirmation of the Society 500
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  484
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 19
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 1 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    6 May