[210] 1 John 5:14-21;Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5+6a+9b; John 2:1-12.
Hours of the day
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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).
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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).
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Anniversary:
112th anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Handmann (77) d. 1929 at Sankt Andrä, Austria.
Anniversary:
98th anniversary of the death of P. LuĂs Gonzaga Dialer (77) d. 1943 at Recife, Brazil.
Anniversary:
78th anniversary of the death of F. James Feeley (57) d. 1963 at Grahamstown, RSA.
Anniversary:
78th anniversary of the death of P. Miguel Ferreira da Silva (42) d. 1963 at Furancungo / Lifidzi, Province of Mozambique.
Anniversary:
64th anniversary of the death of P. Charles O'Neill (50) d. 1977 at Port Elizabeth, RSA.
Anniversary:
28th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Parish (72) d. 2013 at Boscombe, England.
Anniversary:
26th anniversary of the death of P. Joachim von Kerssenbrock (85) d. 2015 at New York, NY, USA.
Birthday:
50th birthday of S. Lovemore MASHIRI (born this day in 1991).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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.
