Friends at Court GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 44, 3 November 1904, Page 31

Friends at Court GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November G, Sunday.— Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost 7, Monday.— The Purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. X, Tuesday.— Octave of All Saints. „ !), Wednesday.— Dedication ot i the Chinch of St. John Lateran. „ 10, Thursday .—St. Andrew of Avellino, Confessor. 11, Friday.— St. Martin, Bishop and Confessor. „ 12, Saturday.— St. Livinus, Bishop and Martyr.

ot. Martin, Bishop and Confessor. St. Martin was born at Sabaria, Hungary, in 316, and died at Candes, France, in 400. Martin became a Christian catechumen against his parents' wish, and at the age ot liiteen he was, therefore, seized by his father, a pagan soldier, and em oiled in the army. One winter day, when stationed at Amiens, he met a beggar almost naked and fro/en Having no money, he cut his cloak in two and gave him halt ot it. That night he saw oit Lord clothed in the halt ot his cloak, and heaid Hun say to the angels : ' Martin, yet a catechumen, hath wrapped Me in this garment.' This decided him to be baptised, and shortly alter he left' the army. Me succeeded in converting his mother, but, being driven h Din his home by the Arians, he took shelter with St. Jlilaiy, and iounded near Poitiers the first monastery in France. Jn 372 he was made -Bishop of Tours. Unarmed and attended only by his monks, Martin destroy-, oil the heathen temples and groves, and completed by his picaching and miiaeles the conversion of the people, when c he is known as the Apostle of Gaul. St. Livinus, Bishop and Confessor. St Livihus, an Irish Bishop, is called the Apostle ol Brabant, Belgium. He sufieied martyrdom about the year tijii.