GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 35, 1 September 1904, Page 31

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

September 4, Sunday.— Fifteenth Sunday after Petitecost. St. Rose of Viterbo, Virgin. „ 5, Monday.— St. Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor. „ 6, Tuesday.— St. Rumoldus, Bishop and Martyr. „ 7, Wednesday.— St. Eugenius 111., Pope and Confessor. „ 8, Thursday.— Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 9, Friday.— St. Kyran, Abbot. „ 10, Saturday.— St. Hilary, Pope and Confessor.

St. Rose of Viterbo, Virgin. St. Rose, having failed to gain admittance into a convent of Franciscan nuns in Viterbo, in Italy, led in the neighborhood a solitary life marked by great austerity, and by assiduous contemplation and prayer. She died about 1252. St., Lawrence Justinian, Bishop and OanfesHor. St. Lawrence Justinian, who was the first Patriarch of Venice, was born in that city about the year 1380. He was General of the Canons Regular of the Congregation of St. George, was appointed Bishop of Venice in J 433, and Patriarch in 1451. He built at Venice ten churches and several monasteries. St. Rumoldus, Bishop and Martyr. St. Rumoldus, Bishop of Dublin, returning from a visit to the tomb of the Apostles, interrupted his journey at Malines, in Belgium. During his stay he preached with much fruit in that city and its neighbdrhojod, and was eventually assassinated by a man whose notorious crimes he had not hesitated, in the interests of morality, to severely stigmatise. St. Dugenius 111., Pope and Confessor. St. Eugenius 111. was Pope from 1145 to 1153. Owin^ to the disturbed state of Rome, Eugenius 111. was consecrated in the monastery of Farfa, and took up his temporary abode at Viterbo. He excommunicated the patrician Jordanes, and finally succeeded in re-establish-ing his authority in Rome. This Pope commissiened St. Bernard to preach the Second Crusade' It was to Pqpe Eugenius 111. that St. Bernard addressed his ' De Consideratione,' in which he stated without disguis© what were the duties of chief pastor, and urged the necessities of reform. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Feast of the Nativity of t>he Blessed Virgin Mary is celebrated on September 8. This festival was appointed by Pope Innocent XL, that the faithful may be called upon in a particular manner to recommend to God, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, the necessities of His Church, and to return to Him thanks for His gracious protection and numberless mercies. What gave occasion to the institution of this feast was a solemn thanksgiving for the relief of Vienna when it was besieged by Turks in 1683. St. Kyran, Abbot. St. Kyran, an Irishman, founded and g,ave a rule of life to many communities of monks in his native country. He established, among others, the famous Abbey of Clonmacnoise, on the Shannon. After his death, in 549, he was honored as principal patron of Connaught. St. Hilary, Pope and Confess,or. St. Hilary, the successor of St. Leo, was .born at Sardinia, and was Pope from 461 to 467. He was the defender of Bishop Flavian against the Eutychians in the Seooni Council of Ephesus in 449.