function getOrthodoxEaster($date)
{
/*
Takes any Gregorian date and returns the Gregorian
date of Orthodox Easter for that year.
*/
$year = date("Y", $date);
$r1 = $year % 19;
$r2 = $year % 4;
$r3 = $year % 7;
$ra = 19 * $r1 + 16;
$r4 = $ra % 30;
$rb = 2 * $r2 + 4 * $r3 + 6 * $r4;
$r5 = $rb % 7;
$rc = $r4 + $r5;
//Orthodox Easter for this year will fall $rc days after April 3
return strtotime("3 April $year + $rc days");
}
?>
[306] 1 Sam 1:9-20;1 Sam 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8; 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:
92nd anniversary of the death of P. Bevis Collings (56) d. 1960 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.
Anniversary:
54th anniversary of the death of P. William Lane (66) d. 1998 at Choma, Zambia.
Anniversary:
46th anniversary of the death of P. Augusto Correia Pinto (90) d. 2006 at Braga, Portugal.
Anniversary:
44th anniversary of the death of F. Christopher Murray (HIB) (96) d. 2008 at Dublin, Ireland.
Birthday:
55th birthday of NS. Bongani Gerald G. TSHUMA (born this day in 1997).
Birthday:
62nd 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.