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| white | St Charles Borromeo, bishop | Memorial |
| Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | |
| Cycle II | [487] Phil 2:12-18; Ps 27:1, 4, 13-14; Luke 14:25-33. |
| Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors
Readings from the Common of Saints: [670] Rom 12:3-13 (#722.1); Ps 89:2-3, 4-5, 21-22, 25+27 (#721.4); John 10:11-16 (#724.10). | |
| Anniversary: | 39th anniversary of the death of P. Ernesto Domingues (77) d. 1987 at Lisbon, Portugal.  |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| Charles Borromeo, bishop, Memorial. He died on this day in 1584 in Milan in the arms of his Jesuit confessor, Fr. Adorno Benfacta dies 1584. He said his second Mass in the rooms of St. Ignatius. He gave St. Aloysius his first communion. |
| 1768 | On the feast of St. Charles, patron of Charles III, King of Spain, the people of Madrid asked for the recall of the Jesuits who had been banished from Spain 19 months earlier. Irritated by this demand, the King drove the Archbishop of Toledo and his Vicar General into exile as instigators of the movement. |
| 1920 | Joseph Fitzmyer, S.J. is born. Scripture scholar. |
| 1927 | Transfer of the Curia to its new quarters at Borgo Santo Spirito 5. |
| 1936 | The death in Tortosa, Spain, of Servants of God Francis AudÃ, John Rovira and Joseph Llatje, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. |
| 1985 | The death of Morton Hill, S.J. He was the founder of Morality in Media. President Reagan sends a sympathy note and tribute to him for his funeral. |
| 1988 | In Lithuania, over 300 people welcome Fr. Sigitas Tamkevicius on his release after five years in prison. |
| 2009 | The death of Thomas O’Malley, S.J. He had been Provincial of New Orleans, an historian, author of "The Conversational Word of God." |
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