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Wednesday in the Fifth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of the Passion I
[253] Dan 3:14-20, 91-92, 95;Dan 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; John 8:31-42.
Hours of the day.
Anniversary:
125th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Wright (46) d. 1897 at Blackpool, England.
Anniversary:
22nd anniversary of the death of F. Patrick McElduff (77) d. 2000 at Dublin, Ireland.
Anniversary:
18th anniversary of the death of F. Evaristo Mapuranga (53) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe.
Anniversary:
11th anniversary of the death of P. Francis O'Neill (83) d. 2011 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
30th birthday of S. Victor C CHIPALABWE (born this day in 1992).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
Feast of Blessed Juliana of Cornelion. She was placed in the Jesuit martyrology at the request of Fr. General Ledochowski. She lived 1193-1258 and helped spread devotion to Corpus Christi, petitioning for a feast to honor it.
1570
Jesuits became the confessors in St. Peter’s Basilica in the transfer to the Society of the "College of Penitentiaries."
1581
St. Edmund Campion published his Decem Rationes.
1669
At Paris, St. Claude de la Colombiere was ordained a priest.
1672
In the Marianne Isle, the Ven. Fr. Diego de San Vitores suffered martyrdom after converting 30,000 persons to the faith. When only 13 years old he heard our Lady tell him three distinct times to enter the Society.
1850
First edition of La Civilta Cattolica appears. The first journal of the restored Society.
1987
Brother Vincent Canas Costa (age 48). After 11 years on the mission in Brazil, he is killed by a blunt wound in the stomach.
