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October 2086

8 Tuesday
  greenTuesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle II [462] Gal 1:13-24; Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15; Luke 10:38-42.
 Hours of the day.
[RM]Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Shemaiah, prophet (cf. 1 Kgs 12:22) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:97th anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:77th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:89th birthday of S. Moniz Fernando REIS (born this day in 1997).

On this day in our Jesuit history...

1834Arrival at Calcutta of Fathers from England, sent at Gregory XVI’s desire.
1871The Chicago Fire. The city is destroyed, but it misses the Jesuit parish as it turns north thanks to the prayers of Fr. Arnold Damen.
1955Solemn dedication and opening of Shrub Oak, New York Maryland Province philosophate with Cardinal Spellman.
1969The death of Louis Twomey, an advocate of interracial justice and labor relations in the United States.
1983The death of Jeanne Marie Mortier, secretary and assistant to Teilhard de Chardin, to whom he entrusted his manuscripts.

 


VARIABLES FOR THE YEAR 2086

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  16
Epact  xiv
Solar Cycle 23
Letter of the Martyrology P
Roman Year of Indiction 4
Julian Period Year 6799
Years since the confirmation of the Society 546
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  530
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 65
Sunday Readings  Cycle  A
Weekday Readings  Cycle   II
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    7 April