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| white | St Dominic, priest | Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | | | Cycle I | [410] Num 20:1-13; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9; Matt 16:13-23. | | Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Pastors: For Missionaries, or Common of Holy Men and Women: For Religious
Readings from the Common of Saints: [617] 1 Cor 2:1-10a (#728.2); Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 (#721.5); Luke 9:57-62 (#742.19). | |
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| Anniversary: | 109th anniversary of the death of F. Gerhard Zocholl (39) d. 1966 at Marymount, Mt. Darwin, Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 107th anniversary of the death of P. William Weller (62) d. 1968 at Lusaka, Zambia. |
| Anniversary: | 87th anniversary of the death of P. Denis Mangan (61) d. 1988 at Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe. |
| Anniversary: | 85th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Svec (67) d. 1990 at Bratislava, Slovakia. |
| Anniversary: | 83rd anniversary of the death of A. Francis Markall (87) d. 1992 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Birthday: | 98th birthday of P. Wilfred M. SUMANI (born this day in 1977). |
| Birthday: | 85th birthday of S. Matthew SALABAKILE (born this day in 1990). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1581 | Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia. |
| 1581 | Father Anthony Possevino was received with extraordinary honors by Basilowicz, the Czar of Russia. |
| 1834 | At London the Vicar Apostolic wrote to Propaganda that there were serious difficulties against the Jesuits having a church in London, which a benefactor offered to build. Gregory XVI then insisted that the Society was to have a church in the city. |
| 1849 | In Rome, the Republicans (Mazzinians) defeated by the French,tried to set fire to the Roman College. |
| 1949 | Letter of the Holy Office to Cardinal Cushing, on the Leonard Feeney case - extra ecclesiam nulla salus. The letter has this date on it, but was only made public later. |
| 1989 | William Cunningham, S.J. dies Chicago, activist lawyer. |
| 2008 | The death of Joseph Gelineau, S.J. pioneer on liturgical music, composer, singing the Psalms. Age. 87. Friend, composer for Taize, and Paris parish priest. |
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