Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 18, 2 May 1907, Page 3

Friends at Court

QLBANINOS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR May 5-, Sunday.— Fifth Sunday after Easter. St. Pius V., Pope and Confessor. „ 6, Monday.— St. John at the Latin Gate. Rogation Day. „ 7, Tuesday.— St. Benedict 11., Pope and Confessor. * Rogation Day. „ 8,. Wednesday.— Apparition of St. Michael, Archangel. Rogation. Day. '„ 9, Thursday.— A scens-ion of Our Lord. „ 10, Friday!— St. Comgall, Abbot. „ 11, Saturday.— St. Alexander 1., Pope and Martyr. St. Benedict 11., Pope and Confessor. St. Benedict, a Roman by birth, was elected Pope on the death of Leo 11 in 684. ' He'di'd not,' says Alban Butler, ' complete eleven months in the pontificate, but filled this short term with good works. The Apparition of St. Michael, v Archangel. This feast was instituted by the Church ,to * commemorate the apparition of St. Michael on Mount Gargano, in the kingdom of Naules. This was the origin of a noted pilgrimage, and the occasion of. the erection of a magnificent church in honor of the great archangel. St. Alexander 1., Tope and Martyr. St. Alexander was a -native of Rome. After a pontificate of nearly ten years, he received the grown of martyrdom in 119.