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7 Monday
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Monday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[224] Lev 19:1-2, 11-18;Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 15; Matt 25:31-46.
Hours of the day.
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Sts Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs Common of Martyrs Readings from the Common of Saints: [538] Rom 8:31b-39 (#716.2); Ps 124:2-3, 4-5, 7-8 (#715.3); Matt 10:34-39 (#718.3).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of P. John Counihan (84) d. 2001 at Lusaka, Zambia.
Anniversary:
19th anniversary of the death of P. John Marbaix (71) d. 2003 at London, England.
Birthday:
80th birthday of P. Stanislaus ROZMAN (born this day in 1942).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1581
A Decree of the Fifth General Congregation binds the Professors of the Society to adhere to the doctrine of St. Thomas.
1675
Jean Pierre Caussade, S.J., writer, is born. Traditional author of the Abandonment to Divine Providence.
1693
The birth of Pope Clement XIII, a strong defender of the Society. 1801. The Brief of Pius VII, Catholicae Fidei, legalizes the Society of Jesus in Russia. Second Confirmation of the Society of Jesus.
1801
"Second Conï¬rmation" Day: Pius VII in his brief Catholicae Fidei conï¬rmed Franciszek Kareu as Superior General of the Jesuits in Russia. Thereafter Pius VII wrote to Kereu as "General of the Society of Jesus."
1867
Issuance of the corporate charter of Woodstock College. It would open two and a half years later.
1893
Archbishop Thomas Roberts, S.J. is born in France. He learned he was Archbishop of Bombay from a reporter. A liberal bishop.
1980
In India, at Sasaram in Patna/Bihar, the assassination of Fr. Matthew Mannaparambil, S.J., parish priest, aged 42.
