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| red | St Boniface, bishop and martyr | Memorial |
| Mass of the memorial; preface of Ascension I - II or Easter I - V or of the saint. | |
| Cycle I | [300] Acts 22:30; 23:6-11;
Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; John 17:20-26.
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| | Hours of the memorial |
| Anniversary: | 180th anniversary of the death of P. John Vollers (46) d. 1907 at Canaries, Spain.  |
| Anniversary: | 103rd anniversary of the death of P. Michael Moloney (71) d. 1984 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 94th birthday of S. BenĂcio Arlindo CHICOMO (born this day in 1993). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1564 | At Lima died Francis Lopez, who had resigned the high office of Visitor General of the Kingdom of Peru to become a lay Brother in the Society. |
| 1564 | Pius IV, hearing that his nephew St. Charles Borromeo felt drawn to the Society, forbad Lainez and Ribadenairs to enter the Apostolic Palace. |
| 1960 | The Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity is established. Cardinal Bea is the first President, from 1960 to his death in 1968. |
| 1986 | John Mahoney is named professor of moral theology in King’s College, the University of London, the first Catholic priest to hold that chair. |
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