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December 2071

5 Saturday
  violetSaturday of the second week in Advent.
Mass of the day. Preface of Advent I
Cycle I [186] Sir 48:1-4, 9-11; Ps 80:2ac+3b, 15-16, 18-19; Matt 17:9a, 10-13.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:66th anniversary of the death of P. William Higham (88) d. 2005 at Preston, Lancs, England. Read Obituary
Birthday:99th birthday of P. George Mtaja BWANALI (born this day in 1972).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1551The Italian Province is constituted. Paschal Broet is named Provincial. It is the fourth province of the Society, after Portugal, Spain, and India.
1584Gregory 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.
1590Brother Daniel Seghers, S.J. is born. He is a famous Flemish painter of insects and flowers.
1649Noel Chabanel, S.J. is martyred at the hands of an Indian renegade.
1906Novices 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.
1967John Hurley, S.J. dies. He had been a missionary, superior, and imprisoned in the Philippines.
1979John Paul II visits the Gregorian University and the Biblical Institute.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2071

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  1
Epact  xxix
Solar Cycle 8
Letter of the Martyrology N
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6784
Years since the confirmation of the Society 531
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  515
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 50
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 19 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    19 April