| 9 Wednesday | |
| | red | Sts Leo Ignatius Mangin, priest, Mary Zhu Wu and companions, martyrs [SJ]
Outside SJ churches Seasonal weekday or optional memorial of St Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, martyrs
Texts in the Jesuit Supplement. (Download Mass texts and Divine Office texts here) | Mass of the memorial; preface of the weekday, or of the saint. | | | Cycle II | [385] Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Matt 10:1-7. | | Hours of the Memorial.
Common of Martyrs
Readings from the Common of Saints: [596A] 1 John 5:1-5 (#716.1); Ps 126:1-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 (#715.4); 2 Cor 1:3b-4a (#717.3); Jn 12:24-26 (#718.5) | |
| | Anniversary: | 70th anniversary of the death of P. Ladisllaw Lecznar (67) d. 1972 at Kabwe, Zambia.  | | Anniversary: | 47th anniversary of the death of F. Simeão N dos Santos (69) d. 1995 at Johannesburg, RSA. | | Anniversary: | 29th anniversary of the death of P. Gaston Mfinyi Kitoko (55) d. 2013 at Mwene-Ditu, Congo. | | Birthday: | 42nd birthday of NS. Clever MADHARA (born this day in 2000). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
| | St. Augustine Zhao Rong and companions, Chinese martyrs. With Blessed Leo Mangin, S.J. and companions, martyrs. | | | Saints Leo Ignatius Mangin, Priest, Mary Zhu Wu and Companions, Martyrs (Memorial)
The four French Jesuit priests commemorated today, Leo Ignatius Mangin, Paul Denn, Rémy Isoré, and Modeste Andlauer, were martyred in China during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, together with a large number of Christian lay men and women. When the Boxers, a militant organization, attacked the mission at Wuyi, Mary Zhu-Wu, a faithful, stood in front of Fr Mangin with arms extended, to protect him, and she was shot dead.
| | 1553 | St. Ignatius created the Province of Brazil and named Fr. Manuel de Nóbrega as first superior of its 30 Jesuits. | | 1553 | The Province of Brazil is constituted, a total of 30 Jesuits with Manuel de Nobrega as Provincial. | | 1763 | The Society is expelled from New Orleans and Louisiana at the bidding of the French government. It is also expelled from Illinois County. | | 1829 | Jan Roothaan is elected General. | | 1934 | The death of Joseph Gianfranceschi, S.J., President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Vatican Radio. He received Extreme Unction from Pope Pius XI. | | 1988 | James J. O'Connor, S.J. dies editor of Canon Law Digest. | | | | |
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