GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 07, Issue 45, 7 November 1907, Page 3

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

November 10, Sunday.— Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost. Patronage of the Blessed Virgin -Mary. „ 11, Monday.— St. Martin, Bishop and Martyr „ 12, Tuesday.— St. Livinus, Bishop and Martyr' „ 13, Wednesday.— St. Nicholas, I. Pope and ConEessor. „ 14, Thursday.— St. Lawrence, Bishop and Confessor. „ 15, Friday.— St. Gertrude, Virgin 16, Saturday.— St. Stanislaus Kostka Confessor. St. Livlnus, Bishop and Martyr. . St. Livinus, Bishop of Dublin,- animated by that missionary zeal which has always been a prominent trait m the character of the Irish priesthood, resigned his diocese in order to devote himself to the conversion of the pagan inhabitants of Flanders. He won the martyr's crown, according to Colgan, in 633, but in 656 according to others. St. Nicholas 1., Pope and Confessor St. Nicholas, who succeeded to the Fisherman's Throne m 858, made strenuous efforts to put an end to the Greek Schism, and steadfastly refused to recognise the intruder, Photius, who had usurped the patriarchal see of Constantinople. Before his death, in 867, the holy Pontiff saw his desires realised, although, as it afterwards appeared, his success was but transitory. . St. Gertrude, Virgin „. s £- Gertrude, who was a religious of the Order of fet. Benedict, was born at Eisleben, Saxony, in 1264 She was a sister of St. Mechtilda. She- wrote in Latin a book called ' Revelations ' in which she relates her communications with God.