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February 2095

5 Saturday
 redSt Agatha, virgin and martyrMemorial
Mass of the saint; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle I [328] Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Mark 6:30-34.
Common of Martyrs, or Common of Virgins
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [527] 1 Cor 1:26-31 (#740.2); Ps 31:3cd-4, 6+8ab, 16bc+17 (#715.1); Luke 9:23-26 (#718.4).)

Hours of the Memorial.
Prop. Ants. Bened. & Magn.
 Lunar New Year (Year of the Rabbit).
Anniversary:181st anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Jacobs (76) d. 1914 at Sankt Andrä, Austria. Read Obituary
Birthday:94th birthday of S. Martinho João ERNESTO (born this day in 2001).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1597Paul 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.
1820The death of Thaddeus Brozozowski, 19th General. He was the General after the Restoration.
1833The first Maryland Provincial is appointed, William McSherry.
1989Br. K.V. Peter dies in India, age 103. He had been given a government award as a Model Postmaster.
1991Pedro Arrupe, S.J., retired Superior General dies in Rome, age 84.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2095

Dominical Letter  b
Golden Number  6
Epact  xxiv
Solar Cycle 4
Letter of the Martyrology E
Roman Year of Indiction 13
Julian Period Year 6808
Years since the confirmation of the Society 555
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  539
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 74
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 24 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    24 April