GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, 22 November 1906, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November 25.— Sunday.— Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pen- - tecost. St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr. ■ , „ 26, Monday.— St. Sylvester, Abbpt '£' ,7 r u ? ?da y--St. Virgil, Bishop 'and Confessor. 28, Wednesday.-^St. Gregory 111., Pope and " . , Confessor. „ 29, .Thursday .—St. Gelasius, Pope and Confessor. „ 30, Friday.— St. Andrei, Apostle December 1, Saturday.— St. .Didacus, Confessor

St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr. St. Catherine/ " a native of Alexandria, and illustrious for her brilliant talents and profound learnine was, after suffering many cruel torments, beheaded br order of the Emperor Maximia-11., in the beginning of the fourth century. . - - St. Sylvester, Abbot. li 77 St - was born near Loreto, in Italy, in ii-Jlv M th f a S e o 4O.he retired into a desert in ordei that, free from worldly cares, he might be able to de- - vote more time to prayer and contemplation. Havingbeen followed by a number of disciples, he founded several monasteries to which he gave the strict rule of St. Benedict. St. Sylvester died in 1267. St." Virgil, Bishop and Confessor. «h j?\ V r Fb a nativ^, o£ Ireland > w as consecrated Bif^ p ° f , Salzburg, in Germany, in 766. -During the twenty-two years in which he governed this see he not only advanced the interests of religion .in his own diocese, but also labored most successfully for the propagation of the Faith in the neighboring provinces of Austria before -Galileo, he appears to have vigfrdieTin 78? roUmdit * of the ««*»■ St.