Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 22 October 1903, Page 31

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

October 25, Sunday .-Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost. St. Boniface 1., Pope and Confessor. 26, Monday.— S>t. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr. 27, Tuesday .-St. Übaldus, Bishop and Confessor. 28, Wednesday .—SS. Simon and Ju.de, Apostles. „ <jy, Thursday.— St. Bede, Confessor and Doctor. 30, Friday.— St. John Baptist <le la Salle, Confessor. „ 31, Saturday.— St. Siricius, Pope and Confessor. St. Boniface 1., Pope. St. Boniface I. was Pope from 418 to 422. Though a lover of peace he strenuously maintained the rights of the Holy See against the ambitious encroachments of the Patriarch of Constantinople. St. Evaristus, Pope and Martyr. The death of St. Evaristus took place in 112. He is honored in the calendar with the title of martyr, but little is known of the events of his life or of his sufferings for the faith. St. Übaldus, Bishop and Confessor. St. ÜbaMus was horn near Ancona, in the Papal States. Consecrated Bishop of Gubio, he adorned that high dignity with all the virtues of a true successor of tihe Apostles. He died in 1160, after an episcopate of 30 years. Sts. Simon and Jude, Apostles. After the dispersion of the Apostles St. Simon preached in Egypt and then in Persia, where he received the crown of martyrdom. According to the common Iradi'tion, he was crucified like our Blessed Saviour. St. Jude, called also Thaddeus, was a brother of St. James the Less. He was related to Christ by his mother, who was a cousin of the Blessed Virgin. St. Jude preached m Mesopotamia and Armenia, and was > finally shot to death with arrows in Persia. The New Testament contains- a short Epistle written by St. Jude, for the benefit, principally, of the Jewish converts. St. Bede, Confessor and Doctor. St. Bede, commonly called Venerable Bede, was born not lar from Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 673. Piety and learning were in him equally conspicuous. Mabillion wxites of* him : ' Who applied himself to the study of every branch of literature, and also to the teaching of others, more than Bede ? Vet who was more closely united ta heaven by the exercises of piety and religion ?' ' To sec him pray,' says an ancient writer, ' one would think he lelt himself no time to study, and when we look at his books we wonder how he could have found time to do anything else but write.' The works of Venerable Bede included several commentaries on' the Sacred Scriptures, and a history of the Catholic Church in England, which have earned for him the title of Doctor of the Church, conferred on him by the late Pope. Venerable Bede died in 735. St. John Baptist de la Salle, Confessor. ' St. John Baptist de la Salle, who was horn in France in 1651, was noted in his youth for the keen interest which he took in the education of children, a work for which he was naturally fitted, and to which he afterwards entirely devoted himself. His zeal, his unalterable patience, and Ins humility were brought into strong relief by the many trials to which, like all reformers, he was exposed. He died at Rouen in 1719, after having successfully established the well-known teaching Order of the Brothers of the Christian schools. St. Sirici'us, Pope and Confessor. St. Siricius, during a pontificate of fourteen years, labored zealously for the conversion of heretics, and the propagation of the true faith. He died in, 398, being more than seventy years of age.