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April 2057

7 Saturday
  violetSaturday in the Fourth Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
 [249] Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-10, 11-12; John 7:40-53.
Hours of the day.
  whiteSt John Baptist de la Salle, priest
Common of Pastors, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Teachers
Readings from the Common of Saints: [549] 2 Tim 1:13-14; 2:1-3 (#722.11); Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4+6 (#739.1); Matt 18:1-5 (#742.7).
Commemoration

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1506St. Francis Xavier is born at the family castle in Navarre. Six days later Peter Faber is born.
1994Three Jesuit priests killed, with 14 others at Centre Christus in Rwanda: Chrysologus Mahame (the first Rwandan Jesuit, age 67), Patrick Gahizi (age 48) , and Innocent Rutagambwa (age 46). Beginnings of genocide in Rwanda, one half million killed in the next seven months.
2014In Homs, Syria, Frans Van der Lugt is assassinated.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2057

Dominical Letter  g
Golden Number  6
Epact  xxiv
Solar Cycle 22
Letter of the Martyrology E
Roman Year of Indiction 5
Julian Period Year 6770
Years since the confirmation of the Society 517
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  501
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 36
Sunday Readings  Cycle  B
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 22 April
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    29 April