| April Observances April 7: Birth of Jean-Claude Colin in Les Barbery (1790). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 28: St. Peter Chanel Feast day and anniversary of the martyrdom of Peter Chanel, Marist missionary and protomartyr of Oceania, on the Island of Futuna, 1841. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- April 29: Approbation of S.M. The date in 1836 on which Pope Gregory XVI issued his approbation of the Society of Mary as a religious congregation in the Apostolic Brief entitled "The Salvation of All Peoples". |