[491] Wis 1:1-7;Ps 139:1b-3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-10; Luke 17:1-6.
Hours of the day.
Birthday:
103rd birthday of S. Brendon Gerard NAYANAH (born this day in 1980).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1561
In Ethiopia, Fathers Rodriguez and Elianus were maltreated by the people of Memphis at the instigation of the Copt schismatics.
1769
In Spain, Charles III ordered all of the Society's goods to be sold, and sent a peremptory demand to the newly-elected Pope Clement XIV to have the Society suppressed.
1974
Karl Rahner, S.J. and Bernard Lonergan, S.J. are the only two to receive honorary degrees at the University of Chicago at a special convocation of the University. This is the climax of one month long medieval celebration of the 700th anniversary of the deaths of Aquinas and Bonaventure.
