[490] Phil 4:10-19;Ps 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a+9; Luke 16:9-15.
Hours of the day.
white green
Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Optional
Anniversary:
68th anniversary of the death of F. James Dunne (HIB) (93) d. 2014 at Dublin, Ireland.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1657
At Genoa died Father Augustine Centurione, who before entering the Society had been Doge of the Republic. His father, mother, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters all became Religious.
1717
Blessed Anthony Baldinucci dies. For twenty years he was an itinerant preacher to the inhabitants of the Italian countryside near Rome, averaging twenty-two missions a year.
1893
Constantine Lievens, S.J. dies at Louvain, Belgium. He is called the greatest missionary of the Restored Society. He was a missionary to India in the 1880 after his novitiate, and performed 25,000 baptisms. He was a defender of the poor.
1921
St. Stanislaus College, a Jesuit novitiate in Macon, Georgia, is destroyed by fire. The four story building had been built in 1873, originally as a diocesan seminary.
1981
Will Durant, historian dies, Aged 91. He was reconciled with the Church before his death. Jesuit alumnus.
1983
Michael Montague, S.J. dies Chicago. Professor of philosophy and theology. He was an idea, thing, and people person.
