[306] Heb 2:5-12;Ps 8:2, 5, 6-7, 8-9; Mark 1:21-28.
Hours of the day.
Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC]
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St Adrian of Canterbury, Abbot
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Common of Pastors
Anniversary:
69th anniversary of the death of P. Bevis Collings (56) d. 1960 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
31st anniversary of the death of P. William Lane (66) d. 1998 at Choma, Zambia.
Anniversary:
23rd anniversary of the death of P. Augusto Correia Pinto (90) d. 2006 at Braga, Portugal.
Anniversary:
21st anniversary of the death of F. Christopher Murray (HIB) (96) d. 2008 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
32nd birthday of NS. Bongani Gerald G. TSHUMA (born this day in 1997).
Birthday:
39th birthday of S. Mark ZULU (born this day in 1990).
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1567
The first missionaries to Peru, nine in number, are sent by St. Francis Borgia.
1831
Father Peter de Smet and a few companions sail from Europe for North America.
1986
Michel de Certeau, S.J. dies, age 61. Writer, anthropology, 1987. The death of William Lynch, S.J. He wrote on religion and literature: Christ and Apollo, Images of Hope, Images of Faith, etc.
