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9 Wednesday
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Wednesday in the First Week of Lent
Mass of the day. Preface of Lent I - IV
[226] Jonah 3:1-10;Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Luke 11:29-32.
Hours of the day.
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St Frances of Rome, religious Common of Holy Men and Women Readings from the Common of Saints: [540] Prov 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 (#737.11); Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (#739.5); Matt 22:34-40 (#742.10).
Commemoration
Anniversary:
6th anniversary of the death of P. Bob Dundon (83) d. 2016 at Wisconsin, WI, USA.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1568
The Birthday of Aloysius Gonzaga in his father's castle.
1631
Claude Francois Menestrier, S.J. is born. He wrote a classic history of ballet, Les Ballets ancient et modernes (published in 1682), and created a ballet for King Louis XIV.
1764
In France, all Jesuits who refused to abjure the Institute were ordered by Parliament to quit the realm within a month. Out of 4,000 members only five Priests, two Scholastics and eight lay-Brothers took the required oath. The rest were driven into exile.
1840
Missouri is made into a Vice Province, with Peter Verhaegen as the first vice provincial. Its members totaled 71; 23 fathers, 23 scholastics and 25 brothers.
1956
A fire at Shadowbrook. New England Province Novitiate. Four die, one brother, three priests, including the Fr. Minister who was trying to phone the fire department.
1997
Quentin Lauer, S.J. dies, age 79. He was a professor of philosophy at Fordham, and a scholar on Hegel.
1998
Fr. Anton Luli, S.J. dies at the age of 88. He was an Italian missionary to Albania, and spent 40 years in an Albanian prison, including much of it in solitary confinement.
