The life and witness of Ignatius of Loyola, a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Society of Jesus, is an optional commemoration in the Episcopal Church. He died on today’s date in the year 1556. Yet today’s date has not always belonged to him. Before the 1994 revision of Lesser Feasts and Fasts, today was the feast of Joseph of Arimathea.[1] When today’s commemoration was added to our calendar in 1994, Joseph of Arimathea was moved to the next free date, August 1. I confess, with respect, I would not have voted to make that change.
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