Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 8, 21 February 1907, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

February 24, Sunday.— Second Sunday in -Lent. „ - 25, Monday.— St. Felix 111., Pope and Confessor. „ 26, Tuesday.— St. Margaret of Cortona, Penitent.. ,- „ 27, Wednesday.— St. Marcellus, Pope and Martyr. - ' „ 28, Thursday.— St. . ilgnatius, Bishop ~ and Martyr. , March 1, Friday. -r-The Holy Shroud of ' Our Lord. cc ~„'~ „' 2,. Saturday. — St. Simplicius, ' Pope and Confessor. ' _ • St. Margaret of Cortona, Penitent. St. Margaret was a native of the province of Tuscany, in Italy. 'During twenty- three ■ years she endeavored to repair by a life of extraordinary austerity the scandal she had given by the crimes of -her youth. St. Marcellus, Pope and Martyr. St. Marcellus succeeded Pope Maroellinus in 308. After a Pontificate of nineteen months, -he succumbed to sufferings inflicted on him by the tyrant Maxentius. The Holy Shrchid of Our. Lord. - St. Matthew, after describing the Crucifixion, con- , tinues : ' When it was evening there came a certain rich • man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was himself a disciple of Jesus. He went to Pilate and .asked the body of- Jesus. And Pilate commanded" that the body should be delivered, and Joseph, tailing the body, wrapped it up in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own monument, which he-had hewed out in"a rock.'