1900

06/17

The martyrdom at Wuyi, China, of Blessed Modeste Andlauer and Blessed Rémy Aroré, slain during the Boxer Rebellion.

1900

07/20

The death in China of Sts. Paul Denn and Leo Mangin, martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion; the Church celebrates their feast on Feb. 4

1909

04/17

In the United States, America Magazine began publication.

1909

05/15

The death in Quito, Ecuador, of Italian Jesuit Luis Sodiro, a key scientific figure in Latin America, who developed a botanic collection that formed the base for the National Botanical Garden in Quito.

1909

06/29

St. Pius X entrusted the Pontifical Biblical Institute to the Society.

1909

09/07

Father General Franz Wernz established the province of Austria.

1913

04/09

Pope St. Pius X spoke his praises of the Apostleship of Prayer which counted 25 million members. The periodical The Messenger of the Sacred Heart appears in 42 editions in more than 20 languages.

1914

08/19

The death of Father General Francis Xavier Wernz, thirty-fifth superior general. A noted canonist, he devoted himself to the internal life of the Society.

1915

02/11

Wlodimir Ledochowski was elected 26th superior general of the Society.

1915

03/01

At the 26th General Congregation, the American Assistancy of the Society was established, consisting of the provinces then existent in the United States: Maryland-New York, Missouri, New Orleans and California. Thomas Gannon was named the first American Assistant.

1924

05/05

The Apostolic Letter of Pope Pius XI to Father General, recalling the distinguished merits of the Gregorian University and deciding to build a grand edifice.

1926

09/26

The death at the leprosarium in Culión, the Philippines, of Father Felipe Millán, known as the "Father of Lepers" after a life heroically dedicated to caring for the sick.

1927

10/04

The death in Mexico City of Servant of God Salvador Garcidueñas, pastor and guardian of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Angels

1928

02/09

Edward Garesche founded the Catholic Medical Mission Board in New York City.

1930

05/27

The death of José María Algué, one of the great meteorologists in the history of the world. He invented a machine to measure barometric pressure that saved many lives in the Far East.

1934

10/07

The deaths of Servants of God Emile Martínez and John Baptist Arconada, martyrs of Spain.

1936

07/24

The death of S.G. Braulio Martínez and Lawrence Isla, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.

1936

08/14

The deaths of Servants of God Joachim Valentí, Louis Boguñá, and Joseph Vergés, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War, killed by machine gun fire the day after their arrests.

1936

08/23

The death of Servants of God Martin Santaella, Alphonsus Payán, and Emmanuel Luque, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War. They were imprisoned in a prison ship in the harbor at Almerí, in southern Spain. Fathers Alphonsus Payán and Emmanuel Luque were taken off the ship along with a large number of others and shot. Fr. Santaella was beaten and suffocated in a coal bunker on another ship.

1936

08/24

The death of S.G. Andrew Carrió, martyr of the Spanish Civil War who remained in Spain ministering to people after the Society was suppressed.

1936

09/08

The death Servant of God Richard Tena, martyr of the Spanish Civil War, who was too old and infirm to leave Spain as many other Jesuits had done. Despite his age, he was arrested and shot.

1936

09/12

Servant of God Emmanuel González (1889-1936), Martyr of the Spanish Civil War. Accused of supporting the nationalist movement against the communists, he was taken from prison in the middle of the night and executed.

1936

09/24

The death of Servant of God Ignatius de Velasco and six Companions, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War.

1936

11/04

The death in Tortosa, Spain, of Servants of God Francis Audí, John Rovira and Joseph Llatje, martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

1937

06/04

Chile was established as an independent vice-province.

1942

11/19

The death of Servant of God Joseph Mark Figueroa, a brother who served as porter of the Jesuit college in Santa Fe, Argentina, for 54 years; his profound love of God touched the whole city.

1944

07/20

An abortive plot against Hitler by General Claus von Stauffenberg and his assistants resulted in the arrest of the Jesuit, Alfred Delp.

1946

08/31

The death of S.G. Joseph Picco, faithful and humble minister. Despite his frail health Fr. Joseph Picco devoted himself to a variety of ordinary jobs over a long life of priestly service. He wanted to be a missionary in Alaska, but his mission was to assist others: an elderly Jesuit who needed health care during his final months, students at the major seminary in Turin where he was confessor, and retreatants in Gozzano.

1946

09/06

General Congregation XXIX convened to elect a new superior general; nine days later it chose the Belgian Jesuit, John Baptist Janssens.

1947

07/21

The death of Servant of God John Baptist Reus, a German who worked in Southern Brazil and is noted for his mystical prayer.

1948

10/01

The death in Portugal of Servant of God Francis Rodrigues da Cruz, famed as a confessor of the poor.

1948

10/21

A novitiate was established in the Belgian Congo for African Jesuits, with four novice scholastics.

1952

05/14

The inauguration in Bogotá, Colombia, of Casa de Ejercicios de Jesús Redentor, for workers and rural farmers.

1952

08/18

The death of Alberto Hurtado, writer, retreat director, trade unionist and founder of "El Hogar de Christo," a movement to help the homeless in Chile.

1955

01/15

The death of Daniel Lord, popular writer, U.S. director of the Sodality, founder of the Summer School of Catholic Action, and editor of The Queen's Work.

1955

04/10

The death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, paleontologist and theologian.

1956

10/28

In La Vega, Republicnican Republic, the inauguration of Radio Santa María, a station founded by the Jesuits to provide popular or basic education throughout that country.

1956

11/01

The Society of Jesus was allowed into Norway.

1957

02/28

The Jesuit Volunteer Corps was founded in the United States.

1963

04/01

The death of Gerald Ellard, liturgist and one of the founders of the National Liturgical Conference.

1963

11/24

The death of John LaFarge, pioneer advocate of racial justice in the United States.

1965

05/22

Pedro Arrupe was elected the 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus.

1968

08/21

Father General Pedro Arrupe arrived in Medellín, Colombia, to take part in the conference of Latin American bishops that proved to be a pivotal moment in the Church's recognition of the central role of the option for justice.

1969

10/08

The death of Louis Twomey, an advocate of interracial justice and labor relations in the United States.

1972

08/20

The death of Pío Buck, a Swiss Jesuit known as the apostle of prisoners in Brasil; he was also famous as an entomologist.

1975

01/26

The death of Josef Jungmann, whose studies of liturgical history contributed to the reform of the liturgy.

1976

10/12

The murder in rural Brazil of Joao Bosco Burnier who was shot and killed by soldiers for protesting the torture of two poor women.

1977

03/12

Salvador Rutilio Grande, pastor and champion of campesinos, was assassinated on his way to celebrate Mass.

1978

06/27

The murder of Bernard Lisson, a mechanic, and Gregor Richert, a parish priest, shot to death at St Rupert's Mission, Sinoia, Zimbabwe.

1979

07/14

The assassination in Guyana of Brnard Darke, a photographer for the Catholic Standard, a diocesan newspaper.

1979

12/14

The death of Riccardo Lombardi, founder of the Better World Movement.

1980

03/07

Matthew Mannaparambil, a parish priest at Sasaram in Patna/Bihar, India, was assassinated.

1981

04/13

The death of Godofredo Alingal, who was shot and killed in his rectory in Kibawe, Philippines, for defending the rights of poor farmers.

1981

08/02

Carlos Perez Alonso, chaplain at a military hospital in Guatemala, disappeared and is presumed to have been killed during a period of repression.

1983

09/02

General Congregation 33 began in Rome with 220 delegates representing 26,000 Jesuits.

1983

11/14

Father General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach decreed that all independent vice-provinces in the Society should become provinces.

1983

12/28

The death in a Chinese labor camp of Francis Xavier Chu, a Jesuit born in Shanghai.

1984

12/08

The death of Walter Ciszek, prisoner in Russia from 1939 to 1963.

1985

10/30

In Mozambique the brutal assasination of Joao de Deus and Silvio Moreira, Portuguese Jesuits who were missionaries dedicated to the good of the people.

1987

06/02

The death of Anthony de Mello, author and retreat master.

1989

06/01

The death of Sergio Restrepo, whose defense of the rights of the powerless and of the environment made him a threat to the interests of the economic and political powers in Tierralta, Colombia.

1989

11/16

The assassination in San Salvador, El Salvador, of Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, Segundo Mondes, Joaquín López, Juan Ramón Moreno, and Amando López, along with their cook, Elba Julia Ramos, and her daughter Celina Maricet Ramos.

1991

02/05

At Rome, the death of Pedro Arrupe, 28th superior general of the Society of Jesus.

1991

08/27

In Bogotá, Colombia, the first meeting for those in charge of pastoral work in the Latin American universities of the Society of Jesus.

1992

05/31

The canonization of Claude de la Colombiere by Pope John Paul II, 63 years after he was beatified by Pius XI.

1994

07/12

"Symposium on the Vocation and Mission of the Jesuit Brother" opened in Loyola and functioned as a commission to prepare for the 34th General Congregation.

1996

10/27

Christophe Munzihirwa Mwene Ngabo SJ, archbishop of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic murderedo, was murdred. He had denounced the political and economic exploitation of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees who sought refuge in Kivu.