GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 32, 10 August 1905, Page 31

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

Friends at Court

August 13, Sunday.— Ninth Simday after Pentecost, St. Plulomeua, Virgin and Martyr. „ 14, Monday.— St. Horrodsdas, Pope and Confessor. „ 15, Tuesday.— Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 16, Wednesday.— St. Roch, Confessor. „ 17, Thursday.— Octave of the Feast of St Lawrence. „ 18, Friday.— St. Hyacinth, Confessor. 19, Saturday.— St. Urban 11., Pope and Confessor. St. Philomena, Virgin. St. Philomena was erne of those countless martyrs who sealed theilr faith with their blood in the persecution of the Roman Emperors. The date and manner of her death are uncertain. St. Hormisdas, Pope and Confessor. St. Hormisdas, who was unanimously elected Pope on the death of St. Symachus, in 514, displayed great energy in propagating the Gospel and eradicating heresy and schism. He died in 523. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The word assumption is a term employed to-day in the language of the Church to signify the miraculous remo *al into hea\en of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body and soul. Jesus Christ, before dying, having recommended His Mother to St. John, this Apostle took care of her, and it is believed that sh,'e followed him to Asia, and finally settled in Ephesus, where she died. The Church honors her death under the name of ' deposition, rest, sleep, passage,' since the beginning of the fifth century, as it appears from a letter of the Ecu. menical Council at Ephesus, of the year 431. Since the century follow ins;, the faithful commenced to distimg,Us>h the Assumption from the other solemnities of the Blessed Virgin. About the end of the seventh century, the belief of her resurrection became current. We njid this pointed out under the name of Assumption in the ancient martyrology attributed to St. Jerome, ard in the Sacramentaries of Popes St. Gelasius and St. Gregory. The Feast of the Assumption is celebrated on Amgust loth. Jn regard "to this assumption or resurrection of Lody and soul of the Blessed Virgin into heaven, it is no article of faith, but only a common opinion which it would be rash to contradict. St. Roch, Confessor. Montpellicr, in France, was the birthplace of St. Roch, as well as Mie scene of his death. The devoted charity which he displayed in assisting, at the risk of Ins own life, \ ersons suffering from a virulent and contagious disease, has caused him to be regarded as a special patron in time of pestilence. He lived in the 14th cc-ntury. St. Hyacinth, Confessor. St. IlyiadVnth, a Polish Dominican, and apostle oR Northern Elurope, was born in the Castle of Sasse'(Sibena*, ard died at Cracow. He received at Rome th« religions habit from the hand of St. Dominic, who apiiointed him Superior of trie mission established in Po» hid, founded a monastery of Dominicans at Cracovr (1217), a id several others in the principal cities of Po* Knl. lie made numerous conversions all over Northern Europe, and preached the Gospel to the Tartars. St. Urban 11., Pope and Confessor. St Url>an was tJorn near Rheims, in France. Having teen elected Poj c in 1088, he employed all his energies in putting an end to the unwarranted interference of the ciril power in purely ecclesiastical affairs, and securing for the Church that liberty of action which was roqulreii for the cfli^iemt discharge of her divinely anointed duties. To the wisdom and zeal of St. Urban was due the initia1i >n of those exri 'editions for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre, which are known as t«he Crusades. St. Urban died in 1099, in the 12th year of his pontificate.