Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 35, 31 August 1905, Page 31

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

Septenrtfer 3, Sunday.— Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost. Commemoration of all the Holy Romar Pontiffs. '„ 4, Monday.— St. Rose of Viterbo, Virgin. „ 5, Tuesday .—St. Laurence Justinian, Bishop and Confessor. „ 6, Wednesday.— St. Rumold, Martyr. 7, Thursday.— St. Eugenius 111., Pope and Confessor. „ 8, Friday.— Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. „ 9, Saturday.— St. Kyran, Abibot.

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, anid by assiduous contemplation'and prayer. She died about 1252. St. Laurence Justinian, Bishop an>d Confessor. St. Laurence Justinian, who was the first Patriarch of Venice, was biorn in that city about the year 1380. He was General of the Canons Regular of the Congregation cf St. George, was appointed Bishop of Tenice in 1433, and Patriarch in 1451. He built at Venice ten churches and several nioniasteries. St. Rumold, Bishop aad Martyr. St. Rumold, Bishop of Dublin, returning from a visit to the tom(b of the Apostles, interrupted his journey at Malines, in Belgium. During his stay he preached • with much fruit in that city and its neighborhood, and was eventually assassinated by a man whose notorious crimes he had not hesitated, in the interests of morality, to severely stigmatise. St. Eugenius 111., Pope and Confessor. St. Eugenius 111. was Poipe from 1145 to 1153. Owing to the disturbed state of Rome, Eugenius 111. was consecrated in the monastery of Farfa, and took up his temporary ataode at Viterbo. He excommunicated the patrician Jordames, and finally succeeded in re-estaibflish-ing his authority in Rome. This Pope commissioned St Bernard to preach the Second Crusade. It was to Pope El!geniusE I ! genius 111. that St. Bernard addressed his" De Consideralione,' in which he stated without disguise what were the duties of chief pastor, and urged the necessities of reform. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Th? Feast of the Nativity of the 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 pjracio-us 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 gave a rule of life to many oomnnutnities 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.