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January 2059

7 Tuesday
 whiteTuesday 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
  whiteSt 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:130th anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Handmann (77) d. 1929 at Sankt Andrä, Austria.
Anniversary:116th anniversary of the death of P. LuĂ­s Gonzaga Dialer (77) d. 1943 at Recife, Brazil. Read Obituary
Anniversary:96th anniversary of the death of F. James Feeley (57) d. 1963 at Grahamstown, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:96th anniversary of the death of P. Miguel Ferreira da Silva (42) d. 1963 at Furancungo / Lifidzi, Province of Mozambique. Read Obituary
Anniversary:82nd anniversary of the death of P. Charles O'Neill (50) d. 1977 at Port Elizabeth, RSA. Read Obituary
Anniversary:46th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Parish (72) d. 2013 at Boscombe, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:44th anniversary of the death of P. Joachim von Kerssenbrock (85) d. 2015 at New York, NY, USA. Read Obituary
Birthday:68th birthday of S. Lovemore MASHIRI (born this day in 1991).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1652The 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.
1824Bishop Du Bourg offered the Jesuits his college, which was to become St. Louis University.
1996Wilhelm Klein, S.J. dies at Muenster, at the age of 106. He was a Professor and Provincial, perhaps the oldest Jesuit ever.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2059

Dominical Letter  e
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 24
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 7
Julian Period Year 6772
Years since the confirmation of the Society 519
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  503
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 38
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 30 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    4 May