13 Apr 1603: Richard Field #Jesuit having reconsecrated the cathedral of the Holy Trinity #Waterford celebrates high mass there #otd

5 Apr 1682: ex-#Jesuit convert Andrew Sall buried at #Oxmantown #Dublin #otd Sall worked on William Bedell's (d.1642) #Gaelic #Bible for Robert Boyle & Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (eebo)

#Books #CurrentlyReading Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. I’ve been meaning to read this book for years and am finally getting around to it. I’m astounded that this book was published 40 years ago, long before smartphones or even the Internet. Postman postulates that television is the main culprit for dumbing down society. And it’s just getting worse, of course. My contention, based on my own observation, is that critical thinking is nearly extinct. I’m eternally grateful for the education I received in #Jesuit institutions in high school and college. It gave me a good foundation of critical thinking that has served me very well. I would highly recommend reading this book.

28 Mar 1606: Trial of Henry Garnett #Jesuit for allegedly instigating Gunpowder Plot starts #otd. Coke, prosecuting says of him: ‘superior to all his predecessors in Devilish treason, a Doctor of Dissimulation’. Executed on 3 May.

28 Mar 1679: St David Lewis #Welsh #Jesuit from Abergavenny condemned #otd under the statute 27 Eliz I, executed at #Usk 27 Aug 1679 (BM)

25 Mar 1538: b. Christopher Clavius #Jesuit astronomer, defender of the Gregorian calendar, but also a geocentrist #otd

3 Mar 1630: Sir William Stanley, soldier, famous #English #Catholic exile buried in a public funeral at the #Jesuit church in #Mechelen #otd He and his mostly #Irish troops handed Deventer to the #Spanish in 1587.

The exiled Ulster Earls met him in 1608.

2 Mar 1606: St Nicholas Owen, carpenter, #Jesuit brother dies under torture, Tower of #London (LLew) #otd The official line was that he had 'slit his own stomach'

26 Feb 1616: The #Jesuit Cardinal Robert Bellarmine orders Galileo #otd not to maintain the heliocentric theory. Neither in speech nor in writing.

21 Feb 1595 : St. Robert Southwell #Jesuit & #poet, executed at Tyburn #otd (BM/eebo)

21 Feb 1606: d. Richard Field of Corduff, #Blanchardstown #Dublin, superior of the #Jesuit mission in #Ireland #otd

20 Feb 1610: beatification ceremony for Ignatius Loyola, founder of the #Jesuit order attended by #Dublin #Jesuit, Henry Fitzsimon #otd (BM)

19 Feb 1598: Jasper Heywood, John Donne's #Jesuit uncle dies in #Naples #otd (eebo/NPG) Heywood had been banished from #England following imprisonment & torture in the Tower of #London

A #Jesuit-led effort for descendants of its #formerslaves seeks to atone for '#sinful' past

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/16/jesuit-slavery-descendants-restorative-justice/78000468007/

Sympathy to the family and friends of Patrick (“Pat”) R. Perry of Salinas, CA. Pat passed away peacefully on September 3 after battling Parkinson’s disease for more than 10 years.

"Pat spent much of his free time enjoying nature: hiking in Big Sur and the Ventana
Wilderness, hunting at the family deer club, fishing in Monterey Bay, and bike riding
along the coast.”

#RIPPatrickPerry
https://www.struveandlaporte.com/obituaries/Patrick-R-Perry?obId=33068471
#Ag #Farmer #SakataSeed #SilverCreekFarms #Palma #CalPoly #Jesuit #ArmyNationalGuard #Veteran #Parkinsons

We are approaching Christmas.

Apropos Christmas, here is a quite short, 4 page, Christmas story that is really good.

Arthur C. Clarke, The Star

https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/TheStar.pdf