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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. |
| Hours of the day |
| | Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC] | | white | St Benedict’ Religious | Optional | | Common of Holy Men and Women |
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| Anniversary: | 134th anniversary of the death of P. Francis Naime (69) d. 1957 at Blackpool, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 82nd anniversary of the death of P. Manuel Joaquim Pereira (89) d. 2009 at Esposende, Portugal. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1767 | The Society was expelled from all its houses in Spain and subjected to great cruelty. |
| 1871 | There is plundering of the Jesuit house at rue de Sevres in Paris by the Communards. |
| 1873 | In Mexico a law to expel the Society was proposed in Parliament. |
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