| 5 Tuesday | |
|
| Anniversary: | 144th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Jacobs (76) d. 1914 at Sankt Andrä, Austria.  |
| Birthday: | 57th birthday of S. Martinho João ERNESTO (born this day in 2001). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
|
| 1597 | Paul Miki, John Soan de Goto, and James Kisai are martyred on this day. Paul was a scholastic, arrested just before his ordination, age 33. John was a scholastic, age 19, and James was a brother, age 64. He had been married, and then his wife apostasized. He worked for and then joined the Jesuits. They had been dragged 600 miles through Japan, and are the first martyrs in Japan. |
| 1820 | The death of Thaddeus Brozozowski, 19th General. He was the General after the Restoration. |
| 1833 | The first Maryland Provincial is appointed, William McSherry. |
| 1989 | Br. K.V. Peter dies in India, age 103. He had been given a government award as a Model Postmaster. |
| 1991 | Pedro Arrupe, S.J., retired Superior General dies in Rome, age 84. |
| | |
|
