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| violet | Monday of Holy Week |
| Mass of the day; Preface of the Passion II |
| | [257] Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14; John 12:1-11. |
| Hours of the day |
| Anniversary: | 91st anniversary of the death of P. Alfons Pollet (51) d. 1983 at London, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 84th anniversary of the death of P. John Carroll (NEN) (67) d. 1990 at Likuni, Malawi. |
| Birthday: | 102nd birthday of P. Rampeoane HLOBO (born this day in 1972). |
| Birthday: | 140th 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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