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| white | Thursday after Epiphany | |
| Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III or of Epiphany |
| | [215] 1 John 4:19-5:4; Ps 72:1-2, 14+15bc, 17; Luke 4:14-22a. |
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| 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: | 154th anniversary of the death of P. Rudolph Handmann (77) d. 1929 at Sankt Andrä, Austria. |
| Anniversary: | 140th anniversary of the death of P. LuĂs Gonzaga Dialer (77) d. 1943 at Recife, Brazil.  |
| Anniversary: | 120th anniversary of the death of F. James Feeley (57) d. 1963 at Grahamstown, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 120th anniversary of the death of P. Miguel Ferreira da Silva (42) d. 1963 at Furancungo / Lifidzi, Province of Mozambique. |
| Anniversary: | 106th anniversary of the death of P. Charles O'Neill (50) d. 1977 at Port Elizabeth, RSA. |
| Anniversary: | 70th anniversary of the death of P. Anthony Parish (72) d. 2013 at Boscombe, England. |
| Anniversary: | 68th anniversary of the death of P. Joachim von Kerssenbrock (85) d. 2015 at New York, NY, USA. |
| Birthday: | 92nd birthday of S. Lovemore MASHIRI (born this day in 1991). |
| Jubilee: | Palladium Jubilee of P. Ireneu Modesto MOISÉS who celebrates 75 years in the Society today. |
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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