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5 Monday
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Monday of the second week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle II
[181] Isa 35:1-10;Ps 85:9ab+10, 11-12, 13-14; Luke 5:17-26.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
17th anniversary of the death of P. William Higham (88) d. 2005 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Birthday:
50th birthday of P. George Mtaja BWANALI (born this day in 1972).
Jubilee:
Pearl Jubilee of P. Heribert Ferdinand MÃœLLER who celebrates 30 years of Priesthood today.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1551
The Italian Province is constituted. Paschal Broet is named Provincial. It is the fourth province of the Society, after Portugal, Spain, and India.
1584
Gregory XIII issues a bull Omnipotentis Dei establishing the Sodality of the Roman College as the first sodality in the world (Primaria) and places all sodalities under Fr. General. The Sodality of the Roman College had begun in 1564.
1590
Brother Daniel Seghers, S.J. is born. He is a famous Flemish painter of insects and flowers.
1649
Noel Chabanel, S.J. is martyred at the hands of an Indian renegade.
1906
Novices at Jesuit Novitiate, St. Andrew on Hudson, NY, are grantedpermission to receive Communion daily. This was a breakthrough due to the letters of Pius X.
1967
John Hurley, S.J. dies. He had been a missionary, superior, and imprisoned in the Philippines.
1979
John Paul II visits the Gregorian University and the Biblical Institute.
