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April 2026

6 Monday
  whiteMonday in the Octave of Easter
 Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal.
 [261] Acts 2:14, 22-32; Ps 16:1-2a+5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; Matt 28:8-15.
Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
Anniversary:129th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Wright (46) d. 1897 at Blackpool, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:26th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick McElduff (77) d. 2000 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Anniversary:22nd anniversary of the death of F. Evaristo Mapuranga (53) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe. Read Obituary
Anniversary:15th anniversary of the death of P. Francis O'Neill (83) d. 2011 at Dublin, Ireland. Read Obituary
Birthday:34th 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.
1570Jesuits became the confessors in St. Peter’s Basilica in the transfer to the Society of the "College of Penitentiaries."
1581St. Edmund Campion published his Decem Rationes.
1669At Paris, St. Claude de la Colombiere was ordained a priest.
1672In 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.
1850First edition of La Civilta Cattolica appears. The first journal of the restored Society.
1987Brother Vincent Canas Costa (age 48). After 11 years on the mission in Brazil, he is killed by a blunt wound in the stomach.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2026

Dominical Letter  d
Golden Number  13
Epact  xi
Solar Cycle 19
Letter of the Martyrology l
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6739
Years since the confirmation of the Society 486
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  470
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 5
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 5 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    12 April