GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

r - November .11, Sunday.— Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost. Patronage of the Blessed - Virgin Mary. „ 12,- Monday. — .St. Liyinus, Bishop and Martyr. „ , 13, Tuesday.— St. Nicholas, Pope and Confessor. .-.'' „ 14, Wednesday.— St. Lawrence, Bishop and Confessor. „ 15, Thursday.— St. Gertrude, Virgin.- - : „ 16, Friday. — St. Stanislaus Kostka, Confessor. „ 17, Saturday.— St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, Bi-~ shop and Confessor.

St. Gertrude, Virgin. St. Gertrude, who was a religious of the Order of j3t. Benedict, was /born at Eisleben, Saxony, in 1264. She was a sister of, St. Mechtilda. She wrote in Latin a book called 'Revelations, 1 in A'hwh.Mie. reJates he-room-" muuications with God. _ "- St. Stanislaus Kostka, Confessor. St. Stanilaus Kostka, who belonged to one of the" noblest families in Poland, was born in the middle of the 16th .century. His early studies were made at home, but at the* age 'of 14 he was sent, with his elder brother Paul, to the Jesuit College at Vienna. At the age of 17 he set out for Rome, where he entered - the Jesuit novitiate, where he 'died in the 18th year of his age. St. Gregory Thaumaturgus. 1 St. Gregory, a Father of the Church, was from < his extraordinary miracles surnamed Thaumaturgus (wonderworker). He was born in Neo-Caesarea .in Pontus, and was educated as a pagan until he came to- Caesarea, Palestine^ where he was converted to the faith by Origen. He passed five years in the school of Origen and three at Alexandria, during the persecution of Maximian, Gregory was made Bishop of his native city, which then - numbered only 17 Christians ; but at his death only 17 pagans remained.