Wine Jubilee of P. Michael AUSTIN who celebrates 85 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1558
To celebrate the election of Fr. James Lainez as general, a "brilliant academical exhibition" was given in the Pantheon in Rome by the scholastics.
1648
Fr. Anthony Daniel is shot with arrows and cast into flames in Canada by the Iroquois. The Huron village is taken.
1751
General Congregation XVII elected 69-year-old Ignacio Visconti to be superior general.
1869
The Buffalo Mission (German speaking)is established with 13 fathers and 8 brothers. They take responsibility for St. Michael and St. Anne parishes in Buffalo.
1872
Kaiser Wilhelm I signs the so called "Jesuit law." Jesuits are"enemies of the Reich". 550 are expelled.
1886
F.X. Gautralet, S.J. dies . He founded the Apostleship of Prayer in 1844. 2003. The death of Bertrand deMargerie, S.J. French theologian and spiritual writer.
