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January 2056

4 Tuesday
 whiteTuesday after Epiphany
Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III or of Epiphany
 [213] 1 John 4:7-10; Ps 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8; Mark 6:34-44.
Hours of the day
Anniversary:135th anniversary of the death of F. Edmund Gisler (60) d. 1921 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:89th anniversary of the death of P. Philip Condell (92) d. 1967 at Salisbury, Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Birthday:81st 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 2056

Dominical Letter  b A
Golden Number  5
Epact  xiii
Solar Cycle 21
Letter of the Martyrology n
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6769
Years since the confirmation of the Society 516
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  500
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 35
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 2 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    9 April