St. Pius 1., Pope and Martyr.
Aquibia, in Northern Italy, was the birthplace of St. Pias, who occupied the Chair of St." Peter from 142 to 157. According to some writers, he was beheaded ; .Recording to . others his death was the result of hardships endured for the Faith. _; St. John Gualbl-irt, Abfoot. - . - St. John was born in Florence of noble parents in 999. Li::e many of the class to which he belonged, he grew up imbued with a pride which would 'neither brook opposition nor allow any injury to pass unavenged. Having, however, on one occas£oli**ih obedience to tllhe promptings of Divine Grace, forgiven a defenceless* " " enemy, this exercise, " of Christian charity proved the beginning of his complete conversion. 'He entered a Benedictine monastery, and afterwards founded the famous abbey and Order of Vallombrosa. He died in 1073. St. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr. St. Anacletus, the second successor of St. Peter," was martyred under Trajan about ' the beginning of the second century. St. Bonaventure, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor. St. Bonavcnture, surnamed, l Doctor Seraphicus,' was a Franciscan, and distinguished for his piety and learning. He was born in 1221, at Bagharea, in Tuscany, and was educated at the University of Paris,- whena, as early as 1253, he obtained a*<professorsttiip of theology, and at the age of 35 years he became the general of his Order, the internal disorders and contentions of which he brought undet due reflations. Pope ClementMV. wished -to maVe him Archbishop of York, but desisted &p 'the request of Pona'enture ; en the other hand, Gregory KMX M in' 1273, compelled him to accept the bishopric of Al» bano. Tn. the year following • Rona,\ enture attended th«t Ecumenical Council of Lyons, and, died while it. was in pes^inn, JUy 15, 1274. Bonaventure acquired great fame by his myoiical writings. But both his philosophical and schcli^Uco-iheolofical worts, of which the principal oner. are the ' Brevilo"i.uium . and the • Certiloquium,' are 1 iwhl^ e c teemed, allhoi'^h their author does not on these subjects reach the levtl'cf St. Thomas. St. Henry, Emperor.. ' Those who are placed in high stations,' 'writes iSt. Fislgentivs, ' must necessarily be to very many an occasion of eternal perdition or salvation. Of St. Henry of Germany it is 1o be said that his public and private life were s;ch as to produce an excellent effect on those o c r whorn he ruled. Guarding himself against the evil ininences to which his position exposed him, he used all his efforts to promote the spiritual and temporal welfare of his subjects. He died in 1024 at the age of 51.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 27, 6 July 1905, Page 31
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