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| white | Thursday in the Octave of Easter | 
|  | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. | 
|  | [264] Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2ab+5, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:35-48. | 
|  | Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal. |  | 
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Agabus, prophet in Antioch (cf. Acts 21:10-11) [from the Roman Martyrology]. | 
| Anniversary: | 100th anniversary of the death of P. John Berrell (69) d. 1994 at Johannesburg, RSA.  | 
| Anniversary: | 94th anniversary of the death of F. Alexio Muzvidzwa (43) d. 2000 at Harare, Zimbabwe.  | 
| Birthday: | 94th birthday of S. Tomás Modesto BENE (born this day in 2000). | 
| On this day in our Jesuit history...
 
 
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| 1548 | St. Peter Canisius was sent to Messina to teach rhetoric. | 
| 1762 | In France, the expulsion of the Fathers from all their colleges and houses by decree of parliament. | 
| 1979 | Karl Rahner, S.J. receives honorary degree at Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, and delivers a classic lecture on the three eras or epochs of church. | 
| 2007 | Edward Brady, S.J. dies, age 77 in Nairobi, Kenya. Worked with JRS, and with Sudanese Bishops for peace and justice. | 
| 2018 | Simon Decloux, SJ dies. Was Rector at Kimwenza, Tertian Instructor, Provincial, General Assistant. | 
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