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| white | Tuesday after Epiphany | |
| Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III or of Epiphany |
| | [213] 1 John 4:7-10; Ps 72:1-2, 3-4ab, 7-8; Mark 6:34-44. |
| Hours of the day |
| white | St Raymond of Penyafort, priest
Common of Pastors
(Readings from the Common of Saints: [511] 2 Cor 5:14-20 (#722.7); Ps 103:1bc-2, 3-4, 8-9, 13-14, 17-18a (#739.6); Luke 12:35-40 (#742.22). | Optional |
| Anniversary: | 96th anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Handmann (77) d. 1929 at Sankt Andrä, Austria. |
| Anniversary: | 82nd anniversary of the death of P. LuĂs Gonzaga Dialer (77) d. 1943 at Recife, Brazil.  |
| Anniversary: | 62nd anniversary of the death of F. James Feeley (57) d. 1963 at Grahamstown, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 62nd anniversary of the death of P. Miguel Ferreira da Silva (42) d. 1963 at Furancungo / Lifidzi, Province of Mozambique. |
| Anniversary: | 48th anniversary of the death of P. Charles O'Neill (50) d. 1977 at Port Elizabeth, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 12th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Parish (72) d. 2013 at Boscombe, England. |
| Anniversary: | 10th anniversary of the death of P. Joachim von Kerssenbrock (85) d. 2015 at New York, NY, USA. |
| Birthday: | 34th birthday of S. Lovemore MASHIRI (born this day in 1991). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1652 | The 10th General Congregation opened and it elected as General the Roman Jesuit Luigi Gottifredi, but he died three months later while the Congregation was still in session. The German Jesuit, Goswin Nickelis elected superior general. |
| 1824 | Bishop Du Bourg offered the Jesuits his college, which was to become St. Louis University. |
| 1996 | Wilhelm Klein, S.J. dies at Muenster, at the age of 106. He was a Professor and Provincial, perhaps the oldest Jesuit ever. |
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