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October 2097

8 Tuesday
  greenTuesday of the twenty-seventh week.
Mass of the day.
Cycle I [462] Jonah 3:1-10; Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4ab, 7-8; 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:108th anniversary of the death of P. Bart Watson (72) d. 1989 at London, England. Read Obituary
Anniversary:88th anniversary of the death of P. Lawrence Tomazin (79) d. 2009 at Lusaka, Zambia. Read Obituary
Birthday:100th 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 2097

Dominical Letter  f
Golden Number  8
Epact  xvi
Solar Cycle 6
Letter of the Martyrology r
Roman Year of Indiction 15
Julian Period Year 6810
Years since the confirmation of the Society 557
Years since the passing of our Holy Father Ignatius  541
Years since the erection of the Southern Africa Province 76
Sunday Readings  Cycle  C
Weekday Readings  Cycle   I
Gregorian Easter 31 March
Julian (Orthodox) Easter    5 May