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Today’s Readings – Saint Joseph Pignatelli, Priest, SJ

Joseph Pignatelli was born of a Spanish mother, and a father who was an Italian noble in 1737. He lived in the family palace in Saragossa (Zaragoza) in north-eastern Spain, about half way between Madrid and Barcelona. When his mother died in 1743, his father moved the family to Naples. Four years later his father died.  In 1749, at the age of 12, he returned to Saragossa and went to the Jesuit College there, living in the Jesuit community house.

On 8 May, 1752, he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona, south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast, and went through the normal formation programme of philosophy and theology. He was ordained a priest the week before Christmas in 1762, and spent the next four-and-a-half years in Saragossa doing ordinary pastoral work, including teachin … Continue

Yesterday’s Readings – Saint Stanislaus Kostka, SJ

Stanislaus Kostka was born at the castle of Rostkovo (Rostkow) in Poland into a noble and wealthy family in 1550. He received his early education from a private tutor and then was sent, with his older brother Paul, to the Jesuit college in Vienna where he studied from 1564 to 1567. He endu … Continue


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