| We acknowledge the important service of the Australian Catholic Social Service Council ( www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au ) and the excellent work of Sr Helen Kearins RSC in preparing the Social Justice elements of this resource . Marist dates are included from Fr Alois Greiler's Chronology of the Life of Fr Jean-Claude Colin. |
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Social Justice and Marist Diary for January This month's anniversaries include Pope Gregory XVI's entrustment the Oceania missions to the Society of Mary (Jan 10, 1836) / establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy established in Canberra (Jan 26, 1972) |
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| 1 | Mary, Mother of God World Day of Prayer for Peace. Theme: 'Blessed are the peacemakers' 1901: Foundation of Commonwealth of Australia 1994: Native Title Act commence operation |
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| 3 | The Epiphany of Jesus 1977: First loans by Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh |
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| 10 | Baptism of the Lord 1836: Oceania mission confided to the Society of Mary (Marist Fathers) by Pope Gregory XVI. 1946: First UN General Assembly opens with 51 nations represented |
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| 15 | 1842: Mary MacKillop born in Fitzroy, Victoria 1929: Martin Luther king Jr born in Atlanta USA |
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| 17 | Second Sunday in Ordinary Time World Day of Prayer for Migrants and Refugees |
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| 24 | Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Feast of St Francis de Sales, patron saint of journalism |
| 25 | 1959: Pope John XXIII announces his intention to convoke the Second Vatican Council |
| 26 | Australia Day / Survival Day 1972: Aboriginal Tent Embassy established in Canberra |
| 27 | International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust |
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| 31 | Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time |
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Social Justice and Marist Diary for February 2016 This month's anniversaries include Year of the Monkey beginning Feb 08, and release of Nelson Mandela (Feb 11, 1990) |
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| 1 | World Interfaith Harmony Week begins |
| 2 | The Presentation of the Lord World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life World Wetlands Day |
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| 5 | 1996: Cape York Peninsula Heads of Agreement signed |
| 6 | International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Waitangi Day, Aotearoa New Zealand |
| 7 | Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1796: Birth of Marie-Françoise Perroton, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary |
| 8 | St Josephine Bakhita |
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| 10 | Ash Wednesday |
| 11 | World Day of Prayer for the Sick 1990: Nelson Mandela released from prison |
| 12 | 1965: The Freedom Ride commenced in Australia 2005: Sr Dorothy Stang murdered in Brazil |
| 13 | 2008: Apology to Stolen Generations by Australian Government |
| 14 | First Sunday of Lent |
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| 20 | World Day of Social Justice |
| 21 | Second Sunday of Lent International Mother Language Day |
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| 28 | Third Sunday of Lent 1873: Approval of Society of Mary's constitutions |
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| Social Justice and Marist Diary for March 2016 |  |
| 1 | International Death Penalty Abolition Day Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day 1999: International Treaty to Ban Landmines becomes effective |
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| 4 | World day of Prayer: Theme - 'Receive Children, Receive Me' 1979: Pope John Paul II's encyclical Redemptor Hominis |
| 5 | 1970: International Treaty in Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons |
| 6 | Fourth Sunday of Lent Clean up Australia Day |
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| 8 | International Women's Day |
| 9 | 1822: Pope Pius VII writes encouraging establishment of the Society of Mary |
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| 11 | 2011: Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, devastated by earthquake and tsunami, killing 18,500 people, destroying the nuclear plant and causing widespread contamination |
| 12 | 1913: Founding of Canberra as Australia's Capital |
| 13 | Fifth Sunday of Lent |
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| 15 | World Consumer Rights Day |
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| 17 | St Patrick |
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| 19 | St Joseph, husband of Mary 1866: Beginning of Sisters of St Joseph at Penola, SA 2003: US and allies invade Iraq |
| 20 | Palm Sunday |
| 21 | International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination World Down Syndrome Day World Poetry Day World Forestry Day Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination begins National Harmony Day (Australia) |
| 22 | World Water Day |
| 23 | World Meteorological Day |
| 24 | Holy Thursday |
| 25 | Good Friday International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing (UN) Staff Members 1877: Death of Caroline Chisholm |
| 26 | Holy Saturday 1967: Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum Progressio ('On the Progress of Peoples') 1975: Biological Weapons Convention enters into force |
| 27 | Easter Sunday |
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| 29 | Neighbour Day (Australia) |
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| Social Justice and Marist Diary for April 2016 |
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| 2 | UN World Autism Awareness Day |
| 3 | Second Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy Sunday |
| 4 | The Annunciation |
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| 6 | International Day of Sport for Development and Peace 1842: Jean-Claude Colin receives news of Peter Chanel's martyrdom; starts work on Beatification Cause same day |
| 7 | World Health Day Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwandan Genocide |
| 8 | National Youth Week begins |
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| 10 | Third Sunday of Easter |
| 11 | 1963: Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem in Terris |
| 12 | 1845: First Marist priests arrive in Australia International Day of Human Space Flight |
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| 15 | 1991: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission Final Report signed |
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| 17 | Fourth Sunday of Easter World Day of Prayer for Vocations 1816: Massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin, NSW |
| 18 | World Heritage Day 1842: First General Congregation of Society of Mary begins at Puylata, Lyon, France 1955: Death of Albert Einstein |
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| 22 | International Mother Earth Day |
| 23 | World Book and Copyright Day |
| 24 | Fifth Sunday of Easter 1945: First United Nations Conference opens with 45 nations attending |
| 25 | Anzac Day |
| 26 | 1986: Nuclear plant accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, causing thousands of deaths and widespread contamination in Europe 1998: Bishop Gerardi murdered in Guatemala |
| 27 | 2014: Popes John XXIII and John Paul II canonised |
| 28 | 1841: St Peter Chanel, pioneer Marist missionary and first martyr of Oceania, martyred in Futuna, Western Pacific |
| 29 | 1836: Approbation of Society of Mary (Marist Fathers) Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare |
| 30 | International Jazz Day |
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| Social Justice and Marist Diary for May 2016 |
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| 1 | Sixth Sunday of Easter St Joseph the Worker International Workers Day 1991: Pope John Paul II's encyclical Centesimus Annus, on the 100th anniversary of Rerum Novarum |
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| 3 | World Press Freedom Day |
| 4 | Yom ha-Shoah, Holocaust Memorial Day |
| 5 | Blessed Edmund Rice |
| 6 | 1992: Introduction of mandatory detention for asylum seekers in Australia |
| 7 | Fair Trade fortnight begins |
| 8 | The Ascension Mothers' Day World Communications Day World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 1945: War ends in Europe 1970: First Moratorium March against the Vietnam War in Australian cities |
| 9 | 1854: General Chapter of the Society of Mary accepts the resignation of Jean-Claude Colin |
| 10 | 1994: Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address as President of South Africa |
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| 12 | International Nurses' Day |
| 13 | International Conscientious Objectors Day |
| 14 | World Fair Trade Day 1971: Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens (A Call to Action) |
| 15 | Pentecost Sunday Jubilee Sunday UN International Day of Families 1891: Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (on Capital and Labour) 1931: Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno (on Reconstruction of the Social Order) 1961: Pope John XXIII's encyclical Mater et Magistra (on Christianity and Social Progress) |
| 16 | World Debt Day |
| 17 | World Telecommunications and Information Society Day |
| 18 | 1837: Jean-Claude Colin signs contract for first general house in Lyon (Puylata) |
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| 20 | 1879: Birth of Marcellin Champagnat, Founder of the Marist Brothers 2002: Timor-Leste Constitution came into force with Xanana Gusmao as first President |
| 21 | World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development |
| 22 | Trinity Sunday International Day for Biological Diversity |
| 23 | International Day to End Obstetric Fistula |
| 24 | Mary Help of Christians, Patron of Australia |
| 25 | Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non Self-Governing Territories begins |
| 26 | National Sorry Day 1997: Bringing Them Home Report tabled in Parliament |
| 27 | National Reconciliation Week begins Week of Prayer for Reconciliation begins 1967: Referendum changes articles in the Australian Constitution that discriminates against Indigenous people |
| 28 | 1842: Jean-Claude Colin leaves for Rome via Marseilles with Victor Poupinel |
| 29 | Corpus Christi (The Body and Blood of Christ) International Day of UN Peacekeepers 1992: Torres Strait Islander flag launched |
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| 31 | World No Tobacco Day |
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| 1 | Global Day of Parents |
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| 3 | 1886: Catholic and Anglican Martyrs of Uganda 1992: High Court hands down decision in Mabo Case |
| 4 | International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression 1989: Tiananmen Square Massacre |
| 5 | Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time World Environment Day |
| 6 | 1840: Death of St Marcellin Champagnat |
| 7 | Ramadan begins |
| 8 | World Oceans Day |
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| 10 | 1838: Myall Creek Massacre 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous established in New York |
| 11 | 1971: Neville Bonner first Aboriginal Australian to hold a seat in Federal Parliament 1975: Australia ratifies the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
| 12 | Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 1988: Barunga Statement presented to Prime Minister Bob Hawke by Aboriginal leaders |
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| 15 | World Elder Abuse Day 1842: Jean-Claude Colin has audience with Pope Gregory XVI 1847: Jean-Claude Colin has audience with Pope Pius IX |
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| 17 | World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought |
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| 19 | Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time National Refugee Week begins 1945: Birth of Aung San Suu Kyi 1969: Arbitration Commission affirms principle of equal pay for women performing equal work |
| 20 | World Refugee Day |
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| 22 | 1989: Destruction of the Berlin Wall |
| 23 | UN Public Service Day International Widows' Day 1854: Jean-Claude Colin leaves for Rome with Fr Yardin |
| 24 | The Nativity of John the Baptist |
| 25 | Day of the Seafarer |
| 26 | Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time International Day in Support of Victims of Torture International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking |
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| 29 | Saints Peter and Paul |
| 30 | 1858: Death of Jeanne-Marie Chavoin, foundress of the Marist Sisters 1945: Introduction of unemployment benefits in Australia |
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| 1 | 1854: Jean-Claude Colin arrives in Rome for his fifth visit 2012: The Fair Work Amendment (TCF Industry) Act 2011 commenced, ensuring fair pay and conditions for outworkers in the garment industry International Tartan Day (Australasia) |
| 2 | International Day of Cooperatives |
| 3 | Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday NAIDOC Week begins |
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| 5 | 1935: Birth of Dalai Lama - awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 |
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| 7 | Eid-al-Fittr - Muslim breaking of the fast 1945: Blessed Peter To Rot - killed in Papua New Guinea, recognised as a martyr |
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| 10 | Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Apostleship of the Sea 1985: Sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland |
| 11 | World Population Day |
| 12 | 1971: Aboriginal Flag first flown in Adelaide |
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| 14 | 1995: Aboriginal Flag and Torres Strait Islander Flag proclaimed official flags of Australia |
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| 16 | 1945: First Atomic bomb detonated in New Mexico |
| 17 | Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 18 | 1918: Birth of Nelson Mandela |
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| 20 | 1969: First moon landing accomplished by Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins |
| 21 | 1846: Jean-Claude Colin leaves on his third visit to Rome |
| 22 | St Mary Magdalene |
| 23 | 1816: 200th anniversary of the promise at Fourviere to form the Society of Mary |
| 24 | Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Bible Sunday |
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| 26 | 1833: Emancipation Bill approved, abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire |
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| 29 | Schools Tree Day |
| 30 | World Day against Trafficking in Persons International Day of Friendship |
| 31 | Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time National Tree Day National Missing Persons Week begins |
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| 1 | National Homeless Persons Week begins 2010: Convention on Cluster Munitions comes into effect |
| 2 | 1965: First Indochinese refugees allowed to settle in Australia |
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| 4 | National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day |
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| 6 | 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| 7 | Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time National Vocations Awareness Week begins 1790: Birth of Jean-Claude Colin |
| 8 | St Mary MacKillop |
| 9 | International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
| 10 | 1873: Death of Marie Françoise Perroton, foundress of Missionary Sisters of the Society of Mary (SMSM) 1936: Death of Fr Peter Piquet SM, missionary priest of St Patrick's, Sydney. |
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| 12 | International Youth Day |
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| 14 | Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 15 | Assumption of Mary |
| 16 | 1975: Wave Hill Station, NT, returned to the Gurindji People |
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| 18 | St Alberto Hurtado SJ Vietnam Veterans Day |
| 19 | World Humanitarian Day 2007: Beginning of protests led by Buddhist monks in Burma |
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| 21 | Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time |
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| 23 | International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition |
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| 26 | 2001: MV Tampa rescues 433 asylum seekers from a sinking vessel. Australian Government sends troops to prevent disembarkation |
| 27 | 1999: Death of Dom Helder Camara |
| 28 | Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Refugee and Migrant Sunday |
| 29 | International Day Against Nuclear Tests |
| 30 | International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances |
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| 1 | National Wattle Day |
| 2 | 1850: Marists arrive in London 1991: Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Act passed by Parliament |
| 3 | 1842: Fr Jean-Claude Colin returns from Rome, sick with malaria 1846: Fr Colin learns of Bishop Epalle's death 1846: Fr Colin begins vistation of the Marist community at Denicé |
| 4 | Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Fathers Day |
| 5 | National Child Protection Week 1866: Marist General Chapter asks Fr Colin to resume work on the Marist Constitutions 1997: Death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta 2013: The Conventon Concerning Decent Work for Domestic Workers came into force |
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| 7 | National Threatened Species Day 1936: Death in Hobart Zoo of the last Tasmanian tiger in captivity 2013: Nova Peris became the first indigenous woman elected to Federal Parliament |
| 8 | International Literacy Day 1842: Fr Colin receives Fr Douarre's vows and advises him of his appointment as bishop 1850: Pope Pius X approves the Third Order of Mary |
| 9 | 1845: Second general congregation of Society of Mary begins at Puylata, in Lyon |
| 10 | World Suicide Prevention Day |
| 11 | Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Child Protection Sunday 2001: Terrorist attacks on World Trade Centre, New York, and on Washington DC |
| 12 | Solemnity of Holy Name of Mary, patronal feast of Society of Mary 1977: Death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Bilko |
| 13 | 2007: UN General Assembly adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
| 14 | The Exaltation of the Holy Cross 1981: Pope John Paul II's encyclical Laborem Exercens ('On Human Work') |
| 15 | UN International Day of Democracy 1847: Bishop Collomb and Marists arrive at Woodlark Island |
| 16 | International Day for Prevention of the Ozone Layer |
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| 18 | Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1961: Death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold |
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| 20 | 1938: Foundation of Australian Province of Marist Fathers |
| 21 | International Day of Peace |
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| 23 | 1959: Australian Consumers Association launched |
| 24 | 1836: First Marist professions and election of Jean-Claude Colin as first Superior General 1856: Pope Pius X opens Beatification Cause for Peter Chanel |
| 25 | Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Social Justice Sunday World Maritime Day 1866: Death of Fr Jean-Claude Courveille at Solesmes |
| 26 | International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons |
| 27 | Feast of Saint Vincent de Paul 1988: Aung San Suu Kyi forms Burma's National League for Democracy |
| 28 | 1983: Death of John Pat in Roeburne Prison WA, prompting the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody |
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| 30 | 1975: Australia's Racial Discrimination Act proclaimed |
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| 1 | International Day for Older Persons |
| 2 | Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time International Day of Non-Violence 1869: Birth of Mahatma Ghandi |
| 3 | World Habitat Day Rosh ha-Shanah (Jewish New Year) |
| 4 | St Francis of Assisi World Space week begins World Animal Welfare Day 1957: Launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union |
| 5 | World Teachers Day |
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| 9 | Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time World Post Day |
| 10 | World Mental Health Day |
| 11 | International Day of the Girl Child 1962: Opening Session of Vatican Council II |
| 12 | Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement) 2002: First Bali bombing: 202 people killed and 240 injutred |
| 13 | International Day for Disaster Reduction 1836: Jean-Claude Colin writes his first circular letter as Superior-General (to parting missionaries) |
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| 15 | International Day of Rural Women |
| 16 | Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time World Mission Sunday World Food Day |
| 17 | International Day for Eradication of Poverty Anti-Poverty week begins |
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| 19 | 2001: Sinking of SIEV X |
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| 23 | Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 24 | United Nations Day World Development Information Day Disarmament Week begins 1875: Jean-Claude Colin celebrates his last Mass (at La Neylière) |
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| 26 | 1985: Uluru returned to traditonal owners, the Anangu people |
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| 29 | 1824: Fr Etienne Declas arrives at Cerdon: 'Today the Society of Mary has begun' |
| 30 | Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 31 | 1875: The dying Jean-Claude Colin makes his Confession and receives Viaticum |
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| 1 | All Saints Day |
| 2 | Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed |
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| 4 | Day of prayer for Anglican-Roman Catholic Reconciliation |
| 5 | 2014: Sydney Peace Prize awarded to Julian Burnside AO QC |
| 6 | Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict International Week for Science and Peace |
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| 8 | 1907: Justice Higgins hands down minimum wage judgment in Harvester case |
| 9 | Dedication of the Lateran Basilica 1989: Berlin Wall opened |
| 10 | World Science Day for Peace and Development 1995: Nine Nigerian environmentalists and human rights activists hanged |
| 11 | Remembrance (Armistice) Day, commemorating the end of World War I in 1918 1875: Fr Jean-Claude Colin receives the Last Rites, La Neylière, France 2014: European Space Agency's Rosetta mission placed its lander module, Philae, on a comet 510 million km from Earth |
| 12 | 1991: Dili massacre, Timor-Leste: more than 271 people killed |
| 13 | Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 14 | World Diabetes Day |
| 15 | 1875: Death of Fr Colin |
| 16 | International Day for Tolerance 1989: Six Jesuit priests and co-workers murdered in El Salvador |
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| 20 | Christ the King Universal Children's Day World Philosophy Day 1959: UN adopts the Declaration of Rights of the Child |
| 21 | World Television Day |
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| 24 | 1964: Parliament passed the National Service Act |
| 25 | International Day for the elimination of Violence Against Women 1981: Declaration of the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief |
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| 27 | First Sunday of Advent 1875: Jean-Claude Colin's simple funeral, garden of La Neylière 1998: First Sydney Peace Prize awarded to Muhammad Yunus |
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| 29 | International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 1980: Death of Dorothy Day, Founder of Catholic Worker Movement |
| 30 | 1971: Synod of Bishops Statement Justice in the World |
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| 1 | World AIDS Day |
| 2 | International Day for Abolition of Slavery |
| 3 | UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities 1874: Battle of the Eureka Stockade |
| 4 | Second Sunday of Advent 1846: Jean-Claude Colin arrives in Rome (his fourth visit) with Fr Dubreul |
| 5 | International Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development Hanukkah ends |
| 6 | St Nicholas (Santa Claus) |
| 7 | UN International Civil Aviation Day 1965: Vatican II Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes |
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| 9 | UN International Anti-Corruption Day |
| 10 | UN Human Rights Day 1948: Adoption of United Nations Declaration of Human Rights 1968: Death of Thomas Merton 1992: Redfern Speech by Prime Minister Paul Keating, at launch of International Year of the World's Indigenous People |
| 11 | Third Sunday of Advent International Mountain Day |
| 12 | 1831: Sisters of Mercy founded by Catherine McAuley |
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| 18 | Fourth Sunday of Advent International Migrants Day 1894: South Australia becomes the first state in Australia to give women the right to vote |
| 19 | UN International Day for South-South Cooperation |
| 20 | UN International Human Solidarity Day |
| 21 | 1991: Dissolution of the USSR and the founding of Commonwealth of Independent States including Russia 1993: Native Title Bill passed by the Australian Senate |
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| 23 | 1901: Immigration Restriction Act (White Australia Policy) enacted 1996: Wik High Court decision |
| 24 | Christmas Eve |
| 25 | Christmas Day |
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| 28 | Feast of the Holy Family |
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| 30 | 1987: Pope John Paul II's encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis |
| 31 | 1946: Paid annual leave granted to workers in Australia |
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