Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 2, 28 February 1907, Page 3

Friends at Court

GLEANINQS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

March 3, Sunday.— Third Sunday in Lent* „ ' 4, Monday. — St. Lucius 1., Pope ,and Martyr. „ . 5, Tuesday.— St. Casimir, : King and- Confessor.' „ 6, Wednesday.— St. Kridplin, ..Abbot.- -: .-.../ . : „ 7, Thursday.— St. Thomas of Aquin, Confessor and Doctor. „ 8, Friday.— St. Cathaldus, Bishop and Confessor. „. 9, Saturday.— St. Frances of Rome, Widow." St. Casimir, King and Confessor. Poland 1 honors as its patron' St. Casimir, second son of the. King' of that country. He learned from pious - preceptors, to practise austerities, which contrasted remarkably with the luxury and splendor of his father's court. He died in 1482, at the age of twenty-four, and is proposed to tlie young as the model of - every \irtue. St. Fridolin, Abbot. _ - - St. Fridolin, the first Apostle of the Alemanni, was . a native of Ireland or Scotland. He labored as -a mis-" sionary in Gaul, where he restored the congregation of St. Hilary at Poitiers, which had been corrupted by Arianism, and in Germany, where he founded a monastery ait( Seckin,gen,, am islajid hi tlie Rhine, near, Basel. St. Fridolin lived in the sixth century. St. Thomas of Aquin, Confessor and Doctor. St. Thomas of Aquin, ' the 'angel of the school,"' was born at Aquino, a town near Naples, An 1225. His early education was entrusted to the care of the Benedictines of "Monte Cassino. After completing his education at the University of Naples he entered the Dominican Order, and became the scholar of Albertus Magnus. He. tajught with universal admiration at Cologne, Paris, Bologna, Naples, and other places. He was equally famous as a preacher. He persistently •refused any ecclesiastical dignity. Called by. Gregory X. to assist the Ecumenical Council of" Lyons- in" 127-1, he fell sick on the journey and died in the Cistercian Monastery of Fossanova before he had completed ' his s.oth year. He was solemnly canonised by John XXII. in 1323, and ~ ranks among^the great Doctors of the Church. •- • . c-