Make a Daily Offering for the Pope's Intention: The world of finance (Watch video) (Read Reflection) "Let us pray that those in charge of finance will work with governments to regulate the financial sphere and protect citizens from its dangers."
5 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Easter
Mass of the day. Preface of Easter I - V "...in this time."
Cycle I
[287] Acts 15:1-6;Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; John 15:1-8.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
67th anniversary of the death of P. LuiĚs Lopes (87) d. 1954 at BaiĚa, Brazil.
Anniversary:
57th anniversary of the death of P. Daniel Byrne (HIB) (44) d. 1964 at Choma, N. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
45th anniversary of the death of P. Henry Townsend (65) d. 1976 at London, England.
Anniversary:
31st anniversary of the death of P. Pascoal AntĂłnio Frias (88) d. 1990 at Lisbon, Portugal.
Anniversary:
16th anniversary of the death of P. John Gillick (89) d. 2005 at Cape Town, RSA.
Birthday:
21st birthday of S. Luciano Francisco VĂCTOR (born this day in 2000).
Birthday:
37th birthday of P. Izequiel L. Estanislau da COSTA (born this day in 1984).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1555
In Portugal, Fr. John Nunez Baretto was consecrated Patriarch of Ethiopia. Fr. Andrew Oviedo was consecrated Bishop of Jerusalem. This was in preparation for their mission to Ethiopia.
1585
In Japan the Emperor gave full leave to Fr. Gaspar Coelho, vice- provincial, to preach the Gospel.
1782
At Coimbra, Sebastian Carvahlo, Marquis de Pombal, a cruel persecutor of the Society in Portugal, died in disgrace and exile. His body remained unburied fifty years, till Father Philip Delvaux performed the last rites in 1832.
1804
The Fathers in Maryland desired to be aggregated to the Society in Russia.
1910
Mary Lou Williams, jazz pianist, composer, is born. She was a convert to Catholicism by a Jesuit, and a Jesuit served as her musical agent.
1924
The Apostolic Letter of Pope Pius XI to Father General, recalling the distinguished merits of the Gregorian University and deciding to build a grand ediďŹce.
