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| white | Saturday after Epiphany | |
| Mass of the day; Preface of Christmas I - III or of Epiphany |
| | [217] 1 John 5:14-21; Ps 149:1-2, 3-4, 5+6a+9b; John 3:22-30. |
| Hours of the day |
| white green | Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary | Optional |
| | Archdioceses of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa [SACBC] | | white | St Adrian of Canterbury, Abbot | Optional | | Common of Pastors |
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| Anniversary: | 84th anniversary of the death of P. Bevis Collings (56) d. 1960 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.  |
| Anniversary: | 46th anniversary of the death of P. William Lane (66) d. 1998 at Choma, Zambia. |
| Anniversary: | 38th anniversary of the death of P. Augusto Correia Pinto (90) d. 2006 at Braga, Portugal. |
| Anniversary: | 36th anniversary of the death of F. Christopher Murray (HIB) (96) d. 2008 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 47th birthday of NS. Bongani Gerald G. TSHUMA (born this day in 1997). |
| Birthday: | 54th birthday of S. Mark ZULU (born this day in 1990). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 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. |
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