Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

February 3, Sunday. — Sexagesima Sunday. - ■ „ 4, Monday.— St. Andrew _ Corsini, Bishop and Confessor. . „ 5, Tuesday. — Commemoration of the Passion -of Our Lord Jesus Christ, „ '6, Wednesday.— St. Hyacinth Mariscotti, Virgin. „ 7, Thursday.— St. Romuald, Abbot. ",, 8, Friday.-^St. John, of Matha, Confessor. „ 9, Saturday.— St. Zozimus, Pope and Confessor. St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop and Confe.ssor. St. Andrew belonged lo a -very illustrious fajnily- of Florence. In his boyhoQd he showed signs of a tendency lo extravagance and vice, but the prayers and exhortations of his pious, mother brought about. Ms, complete conversion. After having been for many years a member o£ the Carmelite Order, he was elected Bishop of Fiesole, a town near Florence. In this position he labored incessantly for eleven years, his only .-recreation being medication on the truths of religion, and reading the Sacred' Scriptures. lie died in 1373, at ' the . age of 71. ' St. Hyacinth Mariscotti, .Virgin. St. Hyacinth was a native of Italy. Though vn T tarnished by any grievous fault, she was,- in her youth, fond of worldly vanities, and gave but a half-hearted response .to the graces by which GJ-od called her to a more perfect life. Having embraced the religious state, she atoned 1 ' for the case and luxury of her early life by the' austerity of her later years. She died in lU4O, at the age of 55. St. Romuald, Abbot. St. Romuald was born, at Ravenna about the year 956. From his youth he longed for a solitary life, that he Anight serve (rod with greater trawquility, free from the tumult of the world. At the age of twenty he became! a mefmjber of a religious community near Ravenna, . and afterwards founded a very strict Order of monks, called Uamaldolese, from, their most famous -monastery. St. Romuald was over seventy years of age -at the time of his doatli in 1027.