Friends at Court

New Zealand Tablet, 13 August 1908, Page 3

Friends at Court

QLEANINQS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR - *. . August 16, Sunday. — Tenth - Sunday after Pentecost. St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin. Mary. """ - „ „ 17, Monday. — Octave" of St. Lawrence, Martyr. - f „ 18, Tuesday. — St. Hyacinth, Confessor. " „ 19, Wednesday. — St. ~ Urban 11.-, Pope' "and Confessor „ 20, Thursday. — St. Bernard, Confessor and -Doctor. „- 24, Friday.— St. Jane Frances de Chantal, .Widow. „ 22, Saturday. — Octave of the Assumption. s

St. Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Fathers of the Church unite in extolling the sanctity of St. Joachim and St. Anne, whose, privilege it was lo be the -parents of the Most Pure Mother of God. St. Urban 11., Pope and Confessor. . <4fc ,«. St. Urban was born near Rheims, in France. Having bee i elected Pope in 1088, he employed all his energies in putting an end to the unwarranted interference of the civil power in purely ecclesiastical affairs, and. securing for the Churchy-Chat- liberty of .. action which was required for the efficient . discharge*'of'brr--divinely appointed duties. To the wisdom and zeal of St. Urban was due the initiation of those expeditions for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre, which are known as the Crusades. St. Jane Frances de^Chantal, Widow. *. \-$ This saint was born at Dijon/- in 1573. ---She-Vas married ut the age of twenty to the Baron de Chahtal^but. .eight years later she had the misfortune to lose her husband through an accident. Having completed the education of her children, she founded under the direction of St. Francis de Sales, and -with the co- --- operation of some other ladies; of rank, the religious Order of '•" the Visitation. She died in 1641. >