GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 6 September 1906, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

September. 9, Sunday.— Fourteenth Sunday after Pente- " cost. St. Kyran; Abbot. }?• Mond J ay -- S Ji; Hilary,. Pope and "Confessor.' r, 11, Tuesday.— St.- Nicholas Tolentino, Confessor. „ 12, Wednesday.— St. Rose of Lima, Virgin" . „ 13, Thursday.— St. Sergius 1., Pope f and Con- >■ lessor. ♦ „ - "14, Friday.— Exaltation of the Holy Cross „ la, Saturday.— Octave of the Nativity of the Blessed" Virgin Mary. Sfc. Kyran," Abibot. St. Kyran, ah Irishman, founded and gave a rule of life to many- communities of monks in his native coun'*r T '™ estaDlish ed, among others, the famous Abbey of Uonmacnoise, on the Shannon. After his death in 519, he was honored as principal patron of Connaught. St. Rose of Lima, Virgin. ~ St. Rose, who was a religious of the Third Order of St. Dominic, was born at Lima, Peru, . South America, She is the ipatron saint of her native city, and was the - first saint of- South America. * St. Sergius 1., Pope and Confessor. St. Sergius was Pope from 687 to 701. He refused' to -sanction the TrulPan Synod, whi!ch .assembled in -692at the. summons of -the Emperor Justinian 41. Irritated by this refusal,' the haughty - Emperor sent orders for the apprehension and transportation of the Pope to Constantinople. But the Romans, and even the Imperial soldiery, rushed to -.the defence of theJPope, and only for the Pope's intervention they would" have torn J Zacharias, the Imperial officer, to pieces.