| 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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December 2015This month's anniversaries include Wik High Court decision (Dec 23, 1996) and the Sisters of Mercy foundation (Dec 12, 1831) |
| 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 |
| 5 | International Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development World Soil Day |
| 6 | St Nicholas (Santa Claus) |
| 7 | 1965: Vatican II Pastoral Constitution 'Gaudium et Spes' |
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| 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 |
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| 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 First day of Hanukkah (Jewish Feast of Dedication) |
| 26 | 2004: South Asia devastated by tsunami, killing 200,000 to 300,000 people |
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| 30 | Feast of the Holy Family 1987: Pope John Paul II's encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis |
| 31 | 1946: Paid annual leave granted to workers in Australia |
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November 2015This month's anniversaries include the massacre of Jesuits and co-workers in El Salvador (Nov 16, 1989) and death of Marist Founder, Jean-Claude Colin (Nov 15, 1875) |
| 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 2015: Elections in Burma won overwhelmingly by National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi |
| 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 2015: Terrorist attacks in Paris: more than 130 killed and 350 injured |
| 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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| 19 | World Toilet Day |
| 20 | Christ the King Universal Children's Day 1959: UN adopts the Declaration of Rights of the Child |
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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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September 2015This month's anniversaries include death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1997) and First Marist professions and election of Jean-Claude Colin as first Superior General (1836) |
| 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 |
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| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Fathers Day National Child Protection Week |
| 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 | 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 | Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Child Protection Sunday 2007: UN General Assembly adopts Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
| 14 | The Exaltation of the Holy Cross Rosh ha-Shanah (Jewish New Year) 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 | 1961: Death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold |
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| 20 | Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1938: Foundation of Australian Province of Marist Fathers |
| 21 | International Day of Peace |
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| 23 | Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement) 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 World Maritime Day |
| 25 | 1866: Death of Fr Jean-Claude Courveille at Solesmes |
| 26 | International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons |
| 27 | Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Social Justice Sunday 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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August 2015This month's dates include:National Homeless Persons Week begins (03) and MV Tampa rescues 433 asylum seekers from a sinking vessel (26) |
| 1 | 2010: Convention on Cluster Munitions comes into effect |
| 2 | Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time National Vocations Awareness Week begins 1965: First Indochinese refugees allowed to settle in Australia |
| 3 | National Homeless Persons Week begins |
| 4 | National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day |
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| 6 | 1945: Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
| 7 | 1790: Birth of Jean-Claude Colin |
| 8 | St Mary MacKillop |
| 9 | Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 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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| 16 | Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time 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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| 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 |
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| 29 | International Day Against Nuclear Tests |
| 30 | Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Refugee and Migrant Sunday International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances |
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July 2015This month's dates include martyrdom of Blessed Peter To Rot (Jul 07) and beginning of Bicentenary Year for Fourvière (Jul 23) |
| 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) |
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| 7 | 1945: Blessed Peter To Rot - killed in Papua New Guinea, recognised as a martyr |
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| 10 | 1985: Sinking of Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland |
| 11 | World Population Day |
| 12 | Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Apostleship of the Sea 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 |
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| 18 | Eid-al-Fittr - Muslim breaking of the fast 1918: Birth of Nelson Mandela |
| 19 | Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 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: Promise at Fourviere to form the Society of Mary Bicentenary Year for Fourvière begins |
| 24 | Schools Tree Day |
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| 26 | Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time National Tree Day National Missing Persons Week begins 1833: Emancipation Bill approved, abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire |
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| 1 | World Communications Day. Theme: Communication at the service of an authentic culture of encounter |
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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 | World Environment Day |
| 6 | 1840: Death of St Marcellin Champagnat |
| 7 | Corpus Christ (Body and Blood of Chris) |
| 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 | Sacred Heart of Jesus World Day Against Child Labour 1988: Barunga Statement presented to Prime Minister Bob Hawke by Aboriginal leaders |
| 13 | Immaculate Heart of Mary |
| 14 | Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time National Refugee Week commences |
| 15 | 1842: Jean-Claude Colin has audience with Pope Gregory XVI 1847: Jean-Claude Colin has audience with Pope Pius IX |
| 16 | International Day of the African Child |
| 17 | World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought |
| 18 | Ramadan begins |
| 19 | 1945: Birth of Aung San Suu Kyi 1969: Arbitration Commission affirms principle of equal pay for women performing equal work |
| 20 | World Refugee Day |
| 21 | Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 22 | 1989: Destruction of the Berlin Wall |
| 23 | UN Public Service Day 1854: Jean-Claude Colin for Rome with Fr Yardin |
| 24 | The Nativity of John the Baptist |
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| 26 | International Day in Support of Victims of Torture International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking |
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| 28 | Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time |
| 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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| Social Justice and Marist Diary for May 2015 |
National Sorry Day (26) / End of World War II (08) |
| 1 | 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 | Fifth Sunday of Easter World Press Freedom Day |
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| 6 | 1992: Introduction of mandatory detention for asylum seekers in Australia |
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| 8 | World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 1945: War ends in Europe 1970: First Moratorium March against the Vietnam War in Australian cities |
| 9 | Fair Trade fortnight begins 1854: General Chapter of the Society of Mary accepts the resignation of Jean-Claude Colin |
| 10 | Sixth Sunday of Easter Mothers' Day 1994: Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address as President of South Africa World Fair Trade Day |
| 11 | World Day of Prayer for Vocations |
| 12 | International Nurses' Day |
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| 14 | 1971: Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Letter Octogesima Adveniens (A Call to Action) |
| 15 | 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 | The Ascension |
| 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 | International Day for Biological Diversity |
| 23 | International Day to End Obstetric Fistula |
| 24 | Pentecost Sunday 1948: Foundation of World Council of Churches |
| 25 | Mary Help of Christians, Patron of Australia 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 | International Day of UN Peacekeepers 1992: Torres Strait Islander flag launched |
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'Pacem in Terris' (1963) / St Peter Chanel's martyrdom (1841) |
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| 2 | Holy Thursday |
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| 4 | International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action |
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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 |
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| 11 | 1963: Pope John XXIII's encyclical Pacem in Terris |
| 12 | Second Sunday of Easter - Divine Mercy Sunday 1845: First Marist priests arrive in Australia International Day of Human Space Flight |
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| 15 | Yom ha-Shoah, Holocaust Memorial Day 1991: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Royal Commission Final Report signed |
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| 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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| 25 | Anzac Day - 100th anniversary |
| 26 | Fourth Sunday of Easter World Day of Prayer for Vocations 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 |
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24th: Assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero / 19th: Beginning of Sisters of St Joseph at Penola, SA |
| 1 | Second Sunday of Lent International Death Penalty Abolition Day Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day 1999: International Treaty to Ban Landmines becomes effective Clean up Australia Day |
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| 5 | 1970: International Treaty in Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons |
| 6 | World day of Prayer: Theme - 'Do you know what I have done to you?' Jn 13: 1-17) |
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| 8 | Third Sunday of Lent 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 |
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| 19 | St Joseph, husband of Mary National 'Close the Gap' Day 1866: Beginning of Sisters of St Joseph at Penola, SA 2003: US and allies invade Iraq |
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| 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 | Fifth Sunday of Lent World Water Day |
| 23 | World Meteorological Day |
| 24 | International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims |
| 25 | The Annunciation UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 1877: Death of Caroline Chisholm |
| 26 | 1967: Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum Progressio ('On the Progress of Peoples') 1975: Biological Weapns Convention enters into force |
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| 1 | Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 19 | Chinese New Year |
| 20 | World Day of Social Justice |
| 21 | International Mother Language Day |
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Social Justice and Marist Diary for January 2015 This month's anniversaries include the first loans from the Grameen Bank (1977) and Pope Gregory XVI's entrustment of the Oceania missions to the Society of Mary (1836) |
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| 25 | Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 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 |
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