Friends at Court GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 11 January 1906, Page 31

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

January 14, Sunday.-Second Sunday after the Epiphany. The Mos.t Holy Name of Jesus, 15, Monday.-St, Ita, Virgin. „ 16, Tuesday.—St. Fursey, Abbot 17, Wednesday. -St. Anthony, Abbot. 18, Thursday. -St. Peter's Chair at ,Rome. 19 Friday. -St. Canute, Martyr. 20, Saturday.-SS. Fabian and Sebastian, Martyrs. The Holy Name of Jesus. Wn SAS A Pau J , lell f us th at Our Lord ' humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross For which cause God also hath exalted Him, fw ?„ m a name which is above all na mes that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow A flr +! -Th at v" e * in heaven - on earth, and under the ?£«t >^ C ° bjeCt ° f the Ulurch in nstituting the w , M Ch 1? celebrate to-day was to bring before her children ,the sacredness of the name of Jesus and h°rev^rently tOnement f ° r SinS ° f t who " se lt St. Ita, Virgin. St. Ita was born in the south of Ireland. She in wSSf 78 h ?n? n Id ln grCat 6Steem in the distri "' h«r i \ She llVed> but ' unfortunately, few details of JJL V & n? c dOWn t0 vs ' She die d in SYO, and is styled by Colgan, the second St. Brigid of Ireland. St. Fursey, Abbot. wfl^nf ™ffeyf ey WaS + born T in the west of Ireland, and in FtL*S parenta S e - H e spent a portion of his life in England, where he founded a monastery in the iff£ to + „l abor zealously for the advancement of religion until his aeath in 6,50. The remains of St ho^d^^mfens. PreSerV6d FeV ° me ' ln the nei S hborl St. Anthony, Abbot. left S bv A h^ h Wh WaS - a +^ atiVe Of u PP c^ Egypt. He was ' c " y , hs father m possession of considerable Si 7 HaS SOon as P ract icable he made over his property to the poor, and retired into the desert where for many years he led a life of remarkable austerity He died in 356, at the age of 105. tcnty. Chair of St. Peter at Rome. c a J hh n S ? st tJ c o mme morates the residence and pontiflSee a? fnfnh te w at ,? 0I f e - At flrst he had fixed'his nreme h^s nf tS bU n, thl " kin S jt advisable that the Sunf + vf ? the Church should reside in the capital of the then. known world, he came to Rome His residence there extended, according to the more commonly received opinion, from A.D. 42 to his martyrdom in St. Canute, Martyr. St. Canute was King of Denmark. He used every which V °h H° SoHdl^ establish the Christian region! Drama r k . h°T , tim ° P™ viousl y *<*n introduced S into Denmark, and to bring about the conversion of those of SnW m t s «» adhered to paganism. His lei v\on tor him the martyr's crown, A.D. 1086. Saints Fabian and Sebastian, Martyrs thP %,,fl bi f an V s + elected Pope in 236 > an <* governed the Church for fourteen years. His life like that 'n( £»™2&. V" earl7 ' POP ° S - Was <*^X marty°r! St. Sebastian was an officer of hieh rank in +v. a Imperial Guard. Owing, to his virtue aid ™ura£i *2 was much esteemed by the. „ Emperor DiocSn and was enabled by the influence thus acquired to oroS numbers of his persecuted fellow-Christians HBH B w« beaten to. v death. with clubs about the year