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| white | Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
| | Mass of the Octave. Gloria, sequence optional, Preface of Easter I ("on this day"); double alleluia at dismissal. |
| | [263] Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8-9; Luke 24:13-35. |
| Hours of the day; Te Deum, double alleluia at dismissal.
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| Anniversary: | 59th anniversary of the death of P. Alfons Pollet (51) d. 1983 at London, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 52nd anniversary of the death of P. John Carroll (NEN) (67) d. 1990 at Likuni, Malawi. |
| Birthday: | 70th birthday of P. Rampeoane HLOBO (born this day in 1972). |
| Birthday: | 108th birthday of P. Emmanuel KUJUR (born this day in 1934). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1553 | Ignatius sends Jerome Nadal as Commissary into Spain to publish the Constitutions. |
| 1615 | William Weston, S.J. dies at Valladolid. |
| 1879 | Angelo M. Paresci, S.J. dies at Woodstock. He was the founder and first Rector of Woodstock College. |
| 1905 | The amputation of the right arm of Fr. General Luis Martin. |
| 1913 | Pope St. Pius X spoke his praises of the Apostleship of Prayer. It counted 25 million members. The periodical The Messenger of the Sacred Heart appears in 42 editions in more than 20 languages. |
| 1934 | Aloysius Pieris, S.J. born. Sri Lanka theologian. |
| 1998 | John Coventry, S.J. dies Provincial, theologian, writer, of Great Britain. |
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