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|   white | Thursday after Epiphany |  | 
 | Mass of the day;  Preface of Christmas I - III or of Epiphany | 
|   | [215] 1 John 4:19-5:4; Ps 72:1-2, 14+15bc, 17; Luke 4:14-22a. | 
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 | | 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: | 99th anniversary of the death of P. Bevis Collings (56) d. 1960 at Makumbi, S. Rhodesia.   | 
| Anniversary: | 61st anniversary of the death of P. William Lane (66) d. 1998 at Choma, Zambia.   | 
| Anniversary: | 53rd anniversary of the death of P. Augusto Correia Pinto (90) d. 2006 at Braga, Portugal.   | 
| Anniversary: | 51st anniversary of the death of F. Christopher Murray (HIB) (96) d. 2008 at Dublin, Ireland.   | 
| Birthday: | 69th birthday of S. Mark ZULU (born this day in 1990). | 
| Birthday: | 62nd birthday of S. Bongani Gerald G. TSHUMA (born this day in 1997). | 
 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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