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| violet | Wednesday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [259] Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34; Matt 26:14-25. |
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On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1506 | St. Francis Xavier is born at the family castle in Navarre. Six days later Peter Faber is born. |
| 1994 | Three 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. |
| 2014 | In Homs, Syria, Frans Van der Lugt is assassinated. |
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