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February 2074

6 Tuesday
 redMartyrs of Japan, (St. Paul Miki, rel and comp., Bl Charles Spinola, Sebastian Kimura, prs, and comp., martyrs [SJ]
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here)
Memorial
Mass of the saint; preface of the weekday, or of the saint.
Cycle II [330] 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30; Ps 84:3, 4, 5+10, 11; Mark 7:1-13.
Common of Martyrs
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [528] Gal 2:19-20 (#740.5); Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); Matt 28:19a, 20b (#723.2); Matt 28:16-20 (#724.4))

Hours of the Memorial.
Archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa
   whiteOur Lady of the Flight into Egypt , Co-Patronal Feast of the ArchdioceseFeast
Mass from the Common of the BVM, Gloria, readings from the Common of the BVM, preface of the BVM.
Anniversary:97th anniversary of the death of F. John Joseph Conway (56) d. 1977 at Musami, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:97th anniversary of the death of P. Christopher Shepherd-Smith (34) d. 1977 at Musami, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary
Anniversary:97th anniversary of the death of P. Martin Thomas (44) d. 1977 at Musami, Republic of Rhodesia. Read Obituary

On this day in our Jesuit history...

Bl. Francis Pacheco, Charles Spinola, priests and companions;
St. Paul Miki, S.J. religious, and his companions, martyrs. Memorial. He died on February 5, 1597.
Saints Paul Miki, Religious, and Companions; Blessed Charles Spinola, Sebastian Kimura, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs (Martyrs in Japan) (Memorial)

It is estimated that in 1590 there were 200,000 Christians in Japan. However, the Christians began to be persecuted by the rulers, and Christianity was outlawed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Jesuits carried on their ministries in hiding till they were captured and condemned to death. In 1597, Paul Miki, John Soan de Goto and James Kisai, together with 120 Christians, were crucified on a hill near Nagasaki. Between 1617 and 1639, as the persecutions grew intense, thirty-eight Jesuits, including Charles Spinola and Sebastian Kimura, were martyred for the faith.

1593Bl. James Sales and William Saultemouche are martyred in France, by Calvinists, for their defense of the Eucharist. Sales was a priest, teacher, preacher, age 37, and Saultemouche was a brother, porter, age 36.
1600At Nanking, Fr. Matthew Ricci, after being expelled from this city, returned and opened a seminary.
1612At Rome the death of Father Christopher Clavius, the Euclid of his age. He took a leading part in the reformation of the Calendar under Gregory XIII.
1763The banishment of the Society from Louisiana by order of the French government. The exiles sail from New Orleans; run aground at the Bahamas; and eventually arrive at Spain on April 6th.
1977John Conway, S.J., brother; Martin Thomas, Christopher Shepherd-Smith, priests, and their companions, are martyred in Zimbabwe by terrorists.
1985Lorenzo Reed, S.J. dies He wrote on Jesuit Education.
1988Fr. Al Jonson, S.J., of the Maryland Province is consecrated bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland. He had been professor of business at Wheeling College. Nine priests minister to 1,500 Catholics, out of a population of 240,000.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2074

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  4
Epact  ii
Solar Cycle 11
Letter of the Martyrology b
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6787
Years since the confirmation of the Society 534
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  518
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 53
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 15 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    22 April